Item pricing for revenue maximization

MF Balcan, A Blum, Y Mansour - … of the 9th ACM Conference on …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
We consider the problem of pricing n items to maximize revenue when faced with a series of
unknown buyers with complex preferences, and show that a simple pricing scheme …

Approximation algorithms and online mechanisms for item pricing

MF Balcan, A Blum - Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
We present approximation and online algorithms for a number of problems of pricing items
for sale so as to maximize seller's revenue in an unlimited supply setting. Our first result is an …

Approximation algorithms for single-minded envy-free profit-maximization problems with limited supply

M Cheung, C Swamy - 2008 49th Annual IEEE Symposium on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the first polynomial-time approximation algorithms for single-minded envy-free
profit-maximization problems (Guruswami et al., 2005) with limited supply. Our algorithms …

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 hardness of pricing items for single-minded bidders

R Khandekar, T Kimbrel, K Makarychev… - International Workshop …, 2009 - Springer
We consider the following item pricing problem which has received much attention recently.
A seller has an infinite numbers of copies of n items. There are m buyers, each with a budget …

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 …

On profit-maximizing pricing for the highway and tollbooth problems

K Elbassioni, R Raman, S Ray, R Sitters - International Symposium on …, 2009 - Springer
In the tollbooth problem on trees, we are given a tree T=(V, E) with n edges, and a set of m
customers, each of whom is interested in purchasing a path on the graph. Each customer …