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Recently, there is growing interest and need for dynamic pricing algorithms, especially, in the field of online marketplaces by offering smart pricing options for big online stores. We present an approach to adjust prices based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-13 David Müller , Yurii Nesterov , Vladimir Shikhman

With the growing needs of online A/B testing to support the innovation in industry, the opportunity cost of running an experiment becomes non-negligible. Therefore, there is an increasing demand for an efficient continuous monitoring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Runzhe Wan , Yu Liu , James McQueen , Doug Hains , Rui Song

Firms that price perishable resources -- airline seats, hotel rooms, seasonal inventory -- now routinely use demand predictions, but these predictions vary widely in quality. Under hard capacity constraints, acting on an inaccurate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Ruicheng Ao , Jiashuo Jiang , David Simchi-Levi

We develop a framework for the optimal pricing and product design of LLMs in which a provider sells menus of token budgets to users who differ in their valuations across a continuum of tasks. Under a homogeneous production technology, we…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-03-10 Dirk Bergemann , Alessandro Bonatti , Alex Smolin

As more manufacturers shift their focus from selling products to end solutions, full-service maintenance contracts gain traction in the business world. These contracts cover all maintenance related costs during a predetermined horizon in…

Applications · Statistics 2020-09-10 Laurens Deprez , Katrien Antonio , Robert Boute

Cloud computing delivers value to users by facilitating their access to computing capacity in periods when their need arises. An approach is to provide both on-demand and spot services on shared servers. The former allows users to access…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xiaohu Wu , Francesco De Pellegrini , Guanyu Gao , Giuliano Casale

We consider dynamic pricing schemes in online settings where selfish agents generate online events. Previous work on online mechanisms has dealt almost entirely with the goal of maximizing social welfare or revenue in an auction settings.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Ilan Reuven Cohen , Alon Eden , Amos Fiat , Łukasz Jeż

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

Contextual dynamic pricing aims to set personalized prices based on sequential interactions with customers. At each time period, a customer who is interested in purchasing a product comes to the platform. The customer's valuation for the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-07 Yiyun Luo , Will Wei Sun , and Yufeng Liu

This paper proposes a two-step framework for techno-economic analysis of a demand-side flexibility service in distribution networks. Step one applies optimization-based modelling to propose a generic problem formulation which determines the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-10 Timur Sayfutdinov , Charalampos Patsios , David Greenwood , Meltem Peker , Ilias Sarantakos

We address the problem of executing large client orders in continuous double-auction markets under time and liquidity constraints. We propose a model predictive control (MPC) framework that balances three competing objectives: order…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-01 Thomas P. McAuliffe , Samuel Liew , Yuchao Li , Andrey Ushenin , Chihang Wang , Alexandros Tasos , Jack Pearce , Dimitris Tasoulis , Dimitri P. Bertsekas , Theodoros Tsagaris

Motivated by the increasing use of online appointment booking platforms, we study how to offer appointment slots to customers in order to maximize the total number of slots booked. We develop two models, non-sequential offering and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-25 Nan Liu , Peter M. van de Ven , Bo Zhang

The e-commerce delivery demand has grown rapidly in the past two decades and such trend has accelerated tremendously due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Given the situation, the need for predicting e-commerce delivery demand and…

We introduce a general model of resource allocation with customer choice. In this model, there are multiple resources that are available over a finite horizon. The resources are non-replenishable and perishable. Each unit of a resource can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-06 Guillermo Gallego , Anran Li , Van-Anh Truong , Xinshang Wang

I consider the optimal hourly (or per-unit-time in general) pricing problem faced by a freelance worker (or a service provider) on an on-demand service platform. Service requests arriving while the worker is busy are lost forever. Thus, the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Vijay Kamble

Motivated by a growing market that involves buying and selling data over the web, we study pricing schemes that assign value to queries issued over a database. Previous work studied pricing mechanisms that compute the price of a query by…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-07-01 Shaleen Deep , Paraschos Koutris

We present a preference learning framework for multiple criteria sorting. We consider sorting procedures applying an additive value model with diverse types of marginal value functions (including linear, piecewise-linear, splined, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Jiapeng Liu , Milosz Kadzinski , Xiuwu Liao , Xiaoxin Mao , Yao Wang

In this paper we present a model predictive control (MPC) approach to optimize vehicle scheduling and routing in an autonomous mobility-on-demand (AMoD) system. In AMoD systems, robotic, self-driving vehicles transport customers within an…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Rick Zhang , Federico Rossi , Marco Pavone

As Internet-based commerce becomes increasingly widespread, large data sets about the demand for and pricing of a wide variety of products become available. These present exciting new opportunities for empirical economic and business…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-02 Anindya Ghose , Arun Sundararajan

One of the service providers in the financial service sector, who provide premium service to the customers, wanted to harness the power of data analytics as data mining can uncover valuable insights for better decision making. Therefore,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-20 MA Nang Laik