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PODS
2012
ACM
297views Database» more  PODS 2012»
11 years 7 months ago
Query-based data pricing
Data is increasingly being bought and sold online, and Webbased marketplace services have emerged to facilitate these activities. However, current mechanisms for pricing data are ...
Paraschos Koutris, Prasang Upadhyaya, Magdalena Ba...
SODA
2012
ACM
226views Algorithms» more  SODA 2012»
11 years 7 months ago
On the hardness of pricing loss-leaders
Consider the problem of pricing n items under an unlimited supply with m buyers. Each buyer is interested in a bundle of at most k of the items. These buyers are single minded, wh...
Preyas Popat, Yi Wu
ESA
2007
Springer
118views Algorithms» more  ESA 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
A Quasi-PTAS for Profit-Maximizing Pricing on Line Graphs
We consider the problem of pricing items so as to maximize the profit made from selling these items. An instance is given by a set E of n items and a set of m clients, where each c...
Khaled M. Elbassioni, René Sitters, Yan Zha...
IOR
2011
96views more  IOR 2011»
13 years 3 days ago
On the Minimax Complexity of Pricing in a Changing Environment
We consider a pricing problem in an environment where the customers’ willingness-to-pay (WtP) distribution may change at some point over the selling horizon. Customers arrive se...
Omar Besbes, Assaf J. Zeevi
AAAI
2012
11 years 7 months ago
The Price of Neutrality for the Ranked Pairs Method
The complexity of the winner determination problem has been studied for almost all common voting rules. A notable exception, possibly caused by some confusion regarding its exact ...
Markus Brill, Felix A. Fischer