Restricting the spread of sensitive information is important in domains ranging from commerce to military operations. In this position paper, we propose research aimed at exploring techniques for privacy enforcement when humans are the recipient of — possibly obfuscated — information. Such obfuscation could be considered to be a white lie, and we argue that determining what information to share...

We consider revenue management problems when customers choose among the offered products according to a nonparametric ranking-based choice model. Under this nonparametric choice model, each customer class is distinguished by a unique ranking of the available products and an arrival probability. Given the arrival of a customer from a particular customer class, this customer will purchase the hig...

Recently there is wide use of social media includes various opinion sites, complaints sites, government sites, question-answering sites, etc. through which customer get services, opinion, information, etc. but because of this there is more and more use of these social media right now so huge amount of data will be created, from this huge data people get confused while taking any decision about ...

We consider revenue management models for pricing a product line with several customer segments, working under the assumption that every customer’s product choice is determined entirely by their reservation price. We model the customer choice behavior by several probabilistic choice models and formulate the resulting problems as mixed-integer programming problems. We study special properties of...

In this paper, we present new approximation methods for the network revenue management problem with customer choice behavior. Our methods are sampling-based and so we require only minimal assumptions regarding the underlying customer choice model. The starting point for our methods is a dynamic program that allows randomization. An attractive feature of this dynamic program is that the size of ...

Knowledge of customer valuation of flight characteristics is important for carriers to decide on service and price levels. It may also be important for regulators to have some knowledge of customer valuation of flight characteristics, as this customer valuation determines to what extent individual flights are substitutes. Furthermore, valuation of characteristics may play a role in infrastructu...