the study investigates consumers’ preference for cowpea reflected in the nigerian markets through price discounts and premiums that consumers pay for different cowpea characteristics. the price data used for this study were obtained through a market survey. a common data collection protocol was employed. every month, between october 2009 to december 2010, five cowpea samples per seller were bou...

Dynamic pricing for network revenue management has received considerable attention in research and practice. Based on data obtained from a major hotel, we use a large-scale numerical study to compare the performance of several heuristic approaches proposed in the literature. The heuristic approaches we consider include deterministic linear programming with resolving and three variants of dynami...

We consider markets that are characterized by non-convexities or indivisibilities, due to the presence of avoidable costs and minimum supply requirements. The motivation for our work has been the area of electricity markets, which allow the submission of multi-part bids and take into account the technical characteristics of the generation units. Such market designs, when operated under marginal...

In this paper, we consider the problem of equal risk pricing and hedging in which fair price an option is that exposes both sides contract to same level risk. Focusing for first time on context where measured according convex measures, establish reduces solving independently writer buyer's problems with zero initial capital. By further imposing measures decompose a way satisfies Markovian prope...

Cloud service providers are distributing data centers geographically to minimize energy costs through intelligent workload distribution. With increasing volumes in emerging cloud workloads, it is critical factor the network for transferring workloads across centers. For geo-distributed centers, many researchers have been exploring strategies cost minimization and inter-data-center distribution ...

price is one of the four elements of marketing mix. one of the important decisions any business faces is select pricing strategies that can be effective in achieving company goals. pricing methods are generally divided into cost-based and value-based methods. considering that the marginal cost of information goods is zero, the pricing methods of these goods is value-based. in this study, mtn ir...