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2003 IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'03)
Reinforcement Learning Applications in Dynamic Pricing of Retail Markets
Newport Beach, California
June 24-June 27
ISBN: 0-7695-1969-5
C.V.L. Raju, Indian Institute of Science
Y. Narahari, Indian Institute of Science
K. Ravikumar, Indian Institute of Science
In this paper, we investigate the use of reinforcement learning (RL) techniques to the problem of determining dynamic prices in an electronic retail market. As representative models, we consider a single seller market and a two seller market, and formulate the dynamic pricing problem in a setting that easily generalizes to markets with more than two sellers. We first formulate the single seller dynamic pricing problem in the RL framework and solve the problem using the Q-learning algorithm through simulation. Next we model the two seller dynamic pricing problem as a Markovian game and formulate the problem in the RL framework. We solve this problem using actor-critic algorithms through simulation. We believe our approach to solving these problems is a promising way of setting dynamic prices in multi-agent environments. We illustrate the methodology with two illustrative examples of typical retail markets.
Citation:
C.V.L. Raju, Y. Narahari, K. Ravikumar, "Reinforcement Learning Applications in Dynamic Pricing of Retail Markets," cec, pp.339, 2003 IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'03), 2003
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