Dynamic Pricing and Automated Resource Allocation for Complex Information Services Reinforcement Learning and Combinatorial Auctions /

• Main Author: Schwind, Michael (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 589
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Computer organization.; Artificial intelligence.; Economic theory.; Mathematics, general.; IT in Business.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.

Many firms provide their customers with online information products which require limited resources such as server capacity. This book develops allocation mechanisms that aim to ensure an efficient resource allocation in modern IT-services. Recent methods of artificial intelligence, such as neural n...

Table of Contents:

• Dynamic Pricing and Automated Resource Allocation
• Empirical Assessment of Dynamic Pricing Preference
• Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Pricing and Automated Resource Allocation
• Combinatorial Auctions for Resource Allocation
• Dynamic Pricing and Automated Resource Allocation Using Combinatorial Auctions
• Comparison of Reinforcement Learning and Combinatorial Auctions.