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作者：Xia, Cathy H.; Dube, Parijat
作者单位：International Business Machines (IBM); IBM USA
摘要：High volatility of the e-services market, due to increasing competition, low life cycle of products, and easy availability of information about competing service offerings to customers, makes the demand for service offerings quite uncertain. Revenue management in such markets calls for real-time techniques to learn the demand and its dependence on both the price and the service level associated with the service offering. We assume firms reply on exploratory approaches for demand estimation, in...
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作者：Shen, Zuo-Jun Max; Su, Xuanming
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Customer behavior modeling has been gaining increasing attention in the operations management community. In this paper we review current models of customer behavior in the revenue management and auction literatures and suggest several future research directions.
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作者：Heydenreich, Birgit; Muller, Rudolf; Uetz, Marc
作者单位：Maastricht University
摘要：We survey different models, techniques, and some recent results to tackle machine scheduling problems within a distributed setting. In traditional optimization, a central authority is asked to solve a (computationally hard) optimization problem. In contrast, in distributed settings there are several agents, possibly equipped with private information that is not publicly known, and these agents must interact to derive a solution to the problem. Usually the agents have their individual preferenc...
