{"id":9641,"date":"2021-03-04T11:38:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T03:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantor.math.ntnu.edu.tw\/?p=9641"},"modified":"2021-03-31T13:41:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T05:41:59","slug":"1-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantor.math.ntnu.edu.tw\/index.php\/en\/2021\/03\/04\/1-69\/","title":{"rendered":"<span style=\"color:#3566BD\">[NCTS Optimization Seminar] <\/span>\u301013 April\u3011Competitive Demand Learning: a Data-Driven Pricing Algorithm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presenter\uff1aAsst. Prof. Yu-Ching Lee<br \/>\nPresenter come from\uff1aDepartment of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, National Tsing-Hua University<br \/>\nTitle\uff1aCompetitive Demand Learning: a Data-Driven Pricing Algorithm<br \/>\nAbstract\uff1aDynamic pricing is used to maximize the revenue of a firm over a finite-period planning horizon, given that the firm may not know the underlying demand curve&#8221; a priori&#8221;. In emerging markets, in particular, firms constantly adjust pricing strategies to collect adequate demand information, which is a process known as price experimentation. To date, few papers have investigated the pricing decision process in a competitive environment with unknown demand curves, conditions that make analysis more complex. Asynchronous price updating can render the demand information gathered by price experimentation less informative or inaccurate, as it is nearly impossible for firms to remain informed about the latest prices set by competitors. Hence, firms may set prices using available, yet out-of-date, price information of competitors. In this paper, we design an algorithm to facilitate synchronized dynamic pricing, in which competitive firms estimate their demand functions based on observations and adjust their pricing strategies in a prescribed manner. The process is called&#8221; learning and earning&#8221; elsewhere in the literature. 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