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This paper studies dynamic monopoly pricing for a broad class of settings that allow for multiple durable, multiple rental, or a mix of varieties. We show that the driving force behind pricing dynamics is the existence of trading-up…

General Economics · Economics 2025-07-09 Stefan Buehler , Nicolas Eschenbaum , Severin Lenhard

This paper considers a combination of intelligent repositioning decisions and dynamic pricing for the improved operation of shared mobility systems. The approach is applied to London's Barclays Cycle Hire scheme, which the authors have…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Julius Pfrommer , Joseph Warrington , Georg Schildbach , Manfred Morari

This research investigates the implementation of a real-time, microservices-oriented dynamic pricing system for the travel sector. The system is designed to address factors such as demand, competitor pricing, and other external…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Biman Barua , M. Shamim Kaiser

We consider "time-of-use" pricing as a technique for matching supply and demand of temporal resources with the goal of maximizing social welfare. Relevant examples include energy, computing resources on a cloud computing platform, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Shuchi Chawla , Nikhil R. Devanur , Alexander E. Holroyd , Anna Karlin , James Martin , Balasubramanian Sivan

The potential of an efficient ride-sharing scheme to significantly reduce traffic congestion, lower emission level, as well as facilitating the introduction of smart cities has been widely demonstrated. This positive thrust however is faced…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Tal Altshuler , Rachel Katoshevski , Yoram Shiftan

The competitive nature of Cloud marketplaces as new concerns in delivery of services makes the pricing policies a crucial task for firms. so that, pricing strategies has recently attracted many researchers. Since game theory can handle such…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Safiye Ghasemi , Mohammad Reza Meybodi , Mehdi Dehghan Takht-Fooladi , Amir Masoud Rahmani

Within a decade, almost every major auto company, along with fleet operators such as Uber, have announced plans to put autonomous vehicles on the road. At the same time, electric vehicles are quickly emerging as a next-generation technology…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Lina Al-Kanj , Juliana Nascimento , Warren B. Powell

Although shared rides have the potential to increase vehicle utilization and reduce congestion and emissions, these benefits depend heavily on ridesharing platforms' ability to match riders effectively. As such, shared rides have seen…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Yifan Shen , Junlin Chen , Julia Yan , Chiwei Yan

Mobile data demand is increasing tremendously in wireless social networks, and thus an efficient pricing scheme for social-enabled services is urgently needed. Though static pricing is dominant in the actual data market, price intuitively…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang , Zhu Han , Yang Zhang

Dynamic pricing schemes were introduced as an alternative to posted-price mechanisms. In contrast to static models, the dynamic setting allows to update the prices between buyer-arrivals based on the remaining sets of items and buyers, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Kristóf Bérczi , Erika R. Bérczi-Kovács , Evelin Szögi

The paper proposes a framework for modeling and analysis of the dynamics of supply, demand, and clearing prices in power system with real-time retail pricing and information asymmetry. Real-time retail pricing is characterized by passing on…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-06-08 Mardavij Roozbehani , Munther A Dahleh , Sanjoy K Mitter

Despite the potential of online sharing economy platforms such as Uber, Lyft, or Foodora to democratize the labor market, these services are often accused of fostering unfair working conditions and low wages. These problems have been…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-01 Eszter Bokányi , Anikó Hannák

Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) services have been an active research topic in recent years. Many studies focused on developing control algorithms to supply efficient services. To cope with a large search space to solve the underlying vehicle…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Fynn Wolf , Roman Engelhardt , Yunfei Zhang , Florian Dandl , Klaus Bogenberger

Ride-pooling (or ride-sharing) services combine trips of multiple customers along similar routes into a single vehicle. The collective dynamics of the fleet of ride-pooling vehicles fundamentally underlies the efficiency of these services.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-08-09 Robin M. Zech , Nora Molkenthin , Marc Timme , Malte Schröder

Mobility-on-demand systems like ride-hailing have transformed urban transportation, but they have also exacerbated socio-economic inequalities in access to these services, also due to surge pricing strategies. Although several…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Matteo Cederle , Saverio Bolognani , Gian Antonio Susto

This work is motivated by our collaboration with a large consumer packaged goods (CPG) company. We have found that while the company appreciates the advantages of dynamic pricing, they deem it operationally much easier to plan out a static…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Will Ma , David Simchi-Levi , Jinglong Zhao

Ridesharing platforms match drivers and riders to trips, using dynamic prices to balance supply and demand. A challenge is to set prices that are appropriately smooth in space and time, so that drivers with the flexibility to decide how to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Hongyao Ma , Fei Fang , David C. Parkes

In this paper, we examine in an abstract framework, how a tradeoff between efficiency and robustness arises in different dynamic oligopolistic market architectures. We consider a market in which there is a monopolistic resource provider and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Qingqing Huang , Mardavij Roozbehani , Munther A Dahleh

After a decade of on-demand mobility services that change spatial behaviors in metropolitan areas, the Shared Autonomous Vehicle (SAV) service is expected to increase traffic congestion and unequal access to transport services. A paradigm…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Ronit Purian , Daniel Polani

In this paper, we study the pickup and delivery problem with multiple transportation modalities, and address the challenge of efficiently allocating transportation resources while price matching users with their desired delivery modes. More…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Mark Beliaev , Negar Mehr , Ramtin Pedarsani