Improved hardness results for profit maximization pricing problems with unlimited supply

P Chalermsook, J Chuzhoy, S Kannan… - International Workshop on …, 2012 - Springer
We consider profit maximization pricing problems, where we are given a set of m customers
and a set of n items. Each customer c is associated with a subset S c⊆ n of items of interest …

Pricing on paths: A ptas for the highway problem

F Grandoni, T Rothvoß - SIAM Journal on Computing, 2016 - SIAM
In the highway problem, we are given an n-edge path graph (the highway), and a set of
paths (the drivers), each one with its own budget. For a given assignment of edge weights …

Envy-free pricing in multi-item markets

N Chen, X Deng - … : 37th International Colloquium, ICALP 2010, Bordeaux …, 2010 - Springer
In this paper, we study the revenue maximization envy-free pricing in multi-item markets:
there are m items and n potential buyers where each buyer is interested in acquiring one …

On revenue maximization with sharp multi-unit demands

N Chen, X Deng, PW Goldberg, J Zhang - Journal of Combinatorial …, 2016 - Springer
We consider markets consisting of a set of indivisible items, and buyers that have sharp multi-
unit demand. This means that each buyer ii wants a specific number d_i di of items; a bundle …

A sublogarithmic approximation for highway and tollbooth pricing

I Gamzu, D Segev - … 37th International Colloquium, ICALP 2010, Bordeaux …, 2010 - Springer
An instance of the tollbooth problem consists of an undirected network and a collection of
single-minded customers, each of which is interested in purchasing a fixed path subject to …

On stackelberg pricing with computationally bounded customers

P Briest, L Gualà, M Hoefer, C Ventre - Networks, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In Stackelberg pricing a leader sets prices for items to maximize revenue from a follower
purchasing a feasible subset of items. We consider computationally bounded followers who …

Buying cheap is expensive: Approximability of combinatorial pricing problems

P Briest, P Krysta - SIAM Journal on Computing, 2011 - SIAM
We investigate nonparametric multiproduct pricing problems, in which we want to find
revenue maximizing prices for products P based on a set of customer samples C. We mostly …

Zone‐based tariff design in public transportation networks

B Otto, N Boysen - Networks, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Tariff design is among the most elementary decision problems to be solved in every public
transportation network. This article focuses on alternative zone‐based tariffs, which vary in …

Pricing ordered items

S Chawla, R Rezvan, Y Teng, C Tzamos - Proceedings of the 54th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We study the revenue guarantees and approximability of item pricing. Recent work shows
that with n heterogeneous items, item-pricing guarantees an O (log n) approximation to the …

Envy-free pricing in multi-item markets

N Chen, X Deng - ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG), 2014 - dl.acm.org
In this article, we study revenue maximizing envy-free pricing in multi-item markets: There
are m indivisible items with unit supply each and n potential buyers where each buyer is …