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HICSS
2003
IEEE
122views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2003»
13 years 11 months ago
Managing Quality Uncertainty Through Contingency Pricing
We analyze quality-contingent prices as a mechanism for mitigating the effects of quality uncertainty in e-commerce and IT goods services. A contingency pricing contract specifie...
Hemant K. Bhargava, Shankar Sundaresan
EOR
2010
114views more  EOR 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Technology choice under several uncertainty sources
We analyze a model of irreversible investment with two sources of uncertainty. A riskneutral decision maker has the choice between two mutually exclusive projects under input pric...
Catherine Bobtcheff, Stéphane Villeneuve
IOR
2010
82views more  IOR 2010»
13 years 4 months ago
A Single-Settlement, Energy-Only Electric Power Market for Unpredictable and Intermittent Participants
We discuss a stochastic-programming-based method for scheduling electric power generation subject to uncertainty. Such uncertainty may arise from either imperfect forecasting or m...
Geoffrey Pritchard, Golbon Zakeri, Andrew B. Philp...
SIGECOM
2006
ACM
96views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Optimal pricing with recommender systems
Abstract We study optimal pricing in the presence of recommender systems. A recommender system affects the market in two ways: (i) it creates value by reducing product uncertaint...
Dirk Bergemann, Deran Ozmen
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
100views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
14 years 2 days ago
The price of uncertainty
We study the degree to which small fluctuations in costs in wellstudied potential games can impact the result of natural best-response and improved-response dynamics. We call thi...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, Yishay Mansour