An application of EDA and GA to dynamic pricing

  • Authors:
  • Siddhartha Shakya;Fernando Oliveira;Gilbert Owusu

  • Affiliations:
  • BT Group Chief Technology Office, Ipswich, United Kingdom;University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom;BT Group Chief Technology Office, Ipswich, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

E-commerce has transformed the way firms develop their pricing strategies, producing shift away from fixed pricing to dynamic pricing. In this paper, we use two different Estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs), a Genetic Algorithm (GA) and a Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm for solving two different dynamic pricing models. Promising results were obtained for an EDA confirming its suitability for resource management in the proposed model. Our analysis gives interesting insights into the application of population based optimization techniques for dynamic pricing.