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
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