A design model for knowledge-based pricing services in the retail industry

Revenue management and seller pricing decisions in retail industry: An agent-based model

Identifying the Most Important Marketing Processes in Iran Banking Industry to Develop a Banking Marketing Maturity Model

Objectives The recent shift, from merely traditional approach providing only financial services to the new trend implying banks can be considered as business partners meeting their whole financial needs and creating a win-win relationship, in customers’ opinion towards banks has made banks try to apply banking marketing strategies to help attract more customers and respond to their needs. Hence...

Agent-Based Modeling of Day-Ahead Real Time Pricing in a Pool-Based Electricity Market

In this paper, an agent-based structure of the electricity retail market is presented based on which day-ahead (DA) energy procurement for customers is modeled. Here, we focus on operation of only one Retail Energy Provider (REP) agent who purchases energy from DA pool-based wholesale market and offers DA real time tariffs to a group of its customers. As a model of customer response to the offe...

Real -Time Pricing Design Considering Uncertainty of Renewable Energy Resources and Thermal Loads in Smart Grids

In this paper, a novel real time pricing design is presented for Demand Response (DR) programs. A Load Serving Entity (LSE) is responsible to provide energy for flexible loads, inflexible loads and thermal loads. The LSE consider operation conditions of system and uncertainty of renewable energy resources and it designs a Real Time Price (RTP) demand response. The inflexible and thermal loads c...

Impacts of government interventions on pricing policies of the dual-channel supply chain by considering retailer services

In this study, the implications of the government’s tariffs on optimal pricing decisions in a dual-channel SC with one manufacturer and one retailer by taking into account the retailer services are examined. First, the best response strategies of retailer and manufacturer have obtained following the government’s tariffs by using a Stackelberg game model. Then, the government problem has modeled...