• DocumentCode
    3587856
  • Title

    Competitive dynamic pricing under demand uncertainty

  • Author

    Yixuan Zhai ; Qing Zhao

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • Firstpage
    1098
  • Lastpage
    1101
  • Abstract
    We consider a multi-seller dynamic pricing problem with unknown demand models. In this problem, each seller offers prices sequentially to a stream of potential customers. Each customer considers only the lowest price among all sellers, and the probability of making a purchase is governed by an unknown demand model that can take a finite number of possible forms. The problem is formulated as a repeated game with incomplete information. We develop a dynamic pricing strategy that leads to an efficient subgame perfect equilibrium and offers a finite regret with respect to the ideal case of a known demand model.
  • Keywords
    game theory; pricing; competitive dynamic pricing strategy; demand uncertainty; finite possible forms; finite regret; incomplete information; known demand model; multiseller dynamic pricing problem; purchase making probability; repeated game; subgame perfect equilibrium; unknown demand models; Economics; Games; History; Nash equilibrium; Numerical models; Pricing; Uncertainty; Dynamic pricing; regret; repeated game; subgame perfect Nash equilibrium;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Signals, Systems and Computers, 2014 48th Asilomar Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-8295-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ACSSC.2014.7094626
  • Filename
    7094626