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WINE
2010
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Improved Hardness of Approximation for Stackelberg Shortest-Path Pricing
We consider the Stackelberg shortest-path pricing problem, which is defined as follows. Given a graph G with fixed-cost and pricable edges and two distinct vertices s and t, we may...
Patrick Briest, Parinya Chalermsook, Sanjeev Khann...
FGCS
2010
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13 years 10 months ago
Autonomic metered pricing for a utility computing service
An increasing number of providers are offering utility computing services which require users to pay only when they use. Most of these providers currently charge users for metere...
Chee Shin Yeo, Srikumar Venugopal, Xingchen Chu, R...
AMC
2005
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13 years 11 months ago
An efficient convergent lattice algorithm for European Asian options
Financial options whose payoff depends critically on historical prices are called pathdependent options. Their prices are usually harder to calculate than options whose prices do ...
Tian-Shyr Dai, Guan-Shieng Huang, Yuh-Dauh Lyuu
ATAL
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Anonymous Pricing of Efficient Allocations in Combinatorial Economies
Auctions and exchanges are important coordination mechanisms for multiagent systems. Most multi-good markets are combinatorial in that the agents have preferences over bundles of ...
Wolfram Conen, Tuomas Sandholm
HICSS
2005
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Cournot Equilibrium in Price-Capped Two-Settlement Electricity Markets
Abstract— We compare two alternative mechanisms for capping prices in two-settlement electricity markets. With sufficient lead time and competitive entry opportunities, forward ...
Jian Yao, Bert Willems, Shmuel S. Oren, Ilan Adler
CIMCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Deploying Neural-Network-Based Models for Dynamic Pricing in Supply Chain Management
With the advent of e-Commerce, enterprises can no longer rely on static business strategies. They have to be able to cope in dynamic and uncertain electronic environments, especia...
Yevgeniya Kovalchuk, Maria Fasli
WINE
2009
Springer
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Envy-Free Allocations for Budgeted Bidders
We study the problem of identifying prices to support a given allocation of items to bidders in an envy-free way. A bidder will envy another bidder if she would prefer to obtain th...
David Kempe, Ahuva Mu'alem, Mahyar Salek