DIMACS Workshop on Yield Management and Dynamic Pricing

August 3 - 5, 2005
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:
James Dana, Northwestern University, j-dana@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Brenda Dietrich, IBM Watson Labs, dietric@watson.ibm.com
Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Computation and the Socio-Economic Sciences.

Workshop Program:

Wednesday, August 3, 2005
 
 7:45 -  8:20  Registration and Breakfast

 8:20 -  8:30  Welcome and Opening Remarks
               Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director
 
 8:30 -  9:00  Welcome
               James Dana, Organizer, Northwestern University
	
 9:00 - 10:00  Strategic Capacity Rationing to Induce Early Purchases
               Garrett van Ryzin and Qian Liu, Columbia University

10:00 - 10:30  Break
	
10:30 - 11:15  Multi-Period Pricing of Perishable Products; 
               Competition, Uncertainty and Learning
               Georgia Perakis, Sloan School, MIT

11:15 - 12:00  Dynamic pricing and leadtime quotation for a
               multi-class make-to-order queue
               Costis Maglaras, Columbia University

12:00 -  1:30  Lunch	

 1:30 -  2:30  Inter-temporal Valuations, Product Design and Revenue Management
               Guillermo Gallego and Ozge Sahin, Columbia University

 2:30 -  3:00  Break

 3:00 -  3:45  When is Price Discrimination Profitable
               When are Advance Purchase Discounts Profitable
               Jim Dana, Northwestern University 

 3:45 -  4:30  Competitive Analysis of On-line Booking: Dynamic Policies
               Michael Ball and Maurice Queyranne, University of Maryland

 4:30 -  5:00  Break

 5:00 -  6:00  Discussion Session: Directions for Revenue Management Research

 6:00	       Buffet Dinner - DIMACS Lounge

Thursday, August 4, 2005

 8:00 -  8:30  Registration and Breakfast

 8:30 - 9:00   Welcome
               Brenda Dietrich, Organizer, IBM Watson Labs

 9:00 - 10:00  Designing and Pricing Grades of Service for Subscribers 
               with Private Information
               Michael Harrison, Sunil Kumar and Tomer Yahalom, Stanford University 

10:00 - 10:30  Break

10:30 - 11:15  Optimization of Distribution Channels: a data-based approach
               Gappy Paleologo, and Rick Lawrence, IBM Research

11:15 - 12:00  Dynamic Pricing For Non-Perishable Products With Demand Learning
               Rene Caldentey and Victor Araman, NYU 

12:00 -  1:30  Lunch

 1:30 -  2:30  Revenue Optimization in a Repeated-Game Model
               Andy Philpott, Engineering Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand

 2:30 -  3:00  Break

 3:00 -  3:45  How To Influence Noncooperative, Selfish Agents
               Lisa Fleischer, T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM

 3:45 -  4:30  Pricing Strategies and Service Differentiation in an 
               M/M/1 queue - A Profit Maximization Perspective 
               Akshay-Kumar Katta and Jay Sethuraman, Columbia University

Friday, August 5, 2005
 
 8:30 -  9:00  Registration and Breakfast
 
 9:00 -  9:45  Near-Optimal Online Auctions 
               Jason Hartline, Microsoft Research and 
               Avrim Blum, Carnegie Mellon University

 9:45 - 10:30  Adaptive Limited-Supply Online Auctions
               Robert Kleinberg, MIT

10:30 - 11:00  Break	

11:00 - 11:45  An Asymptotically Optimal Policy for a Quantity-Based 
               Network Revenue Management Problem
               Marty Reiman and Qiong Wang, Bell Labs Research


Previous: Participation
Next: Registration
Workshop Index
DIMACS Homepage
Contacting the Center
Document last modified on July 28, 2005.