This study examines how methods proposed to price traffic in the fixed Internet can be accepted by customers of 3G mobile services. Most previously proposed congestion pricing models are complicated and therefore difficult to be accepted by customers. Simple data pricing methods are needed in today’s 3G networks. A congestion pricing method is proposed only for customers willing to pay more dur...

This essay puts forward a cruise pricing model based on improved quantum particle swarm optimization, aiming at optimizing the pricing strategy and realizing the maximum sales income expected. Firstly, we combine the two factors – actual booking records and expected booking records in the process of cruises pricing – and improve the dynamic price-setting model based on demand learning put forwa...

W are the drivers of retailer pricing tactics over time? Based on multivariate time-series analysis of two rich data sets, we quantify the relative importance of competitive retailer prices, pricing history, brand demand, wholesale prices, and retailer category-management considerations as drivers of retail prices. Interestingly, competitive retailer prices account for less than 10% of the over...

There is a causal relationship between high-quality cost systems and pricing decision makers because pricing decision is in dire need of modern systems that help make rational decisions. The aim of this research is to confirm that quality cost systems affect pricing decisions-making in maintaining the industrial companies. The research results can be utilized by beneficiaries taking into accoun...

.4bstract— [n this paper we present a comparative stndy of a few simple but representative usage-based pricing strategies. For the current best-effort Internet, we introduce a QoS sensitive pricing mechanism which takes into account the fact that the quality of received audio degrades as the number of hops traversed by the msdio packets increases. We compare the QoS sensitive pricing with flat ...

this paper studies the dynamic behavior of price elasticity and its effects on the overall profit. although price elasticity has a significant effect on sales, its dynamics have not been examined so far in pricing models. in this paper, a simple pricing model is suggested in which, price elasticity is considered dynamic. the suggested pricing model is concerned with a monopolist that its object...

We demonstrate how pricing functionals give rise to pricing measures, using a time-independent framework. For infinite market state spaces, the Gel’fand spectral theory is used to obtain the pricing measure. Pricing functionals with additional market information are shown, within this model, to be given by conditional expectations.

The paper discusses port pricing structures that enhance ship efficiency. Traditionally, ports use public infrastructure pricing, which does not take differences in waiting cost into considerations. We present two alternatives, a two part priority pricing scheme and port slot auctions, as alternative scheduling and pricing schemes that enhance ship efficiency.

The case study conducted in this paper looks at residential water pricing from three different points of view. It first describes existing urban water-pricing practices in Southern France, emphasizing that pricing is not yet being used as a tool for providing economic incentives to save water. It then looks at the observed impact of pricing on water consumption, through an econometric analysis ...

We examine the pricing of catastrophe risk bonds. Catastrophe risk cannot be hedged by traditional securities and thus the pricing of catastrophe risk bonds must be examined in an incomplete markets setting and therefore entails special difficulties in the pricing methodology. We present techniques for pricing these bonds and discuss this theory in the context of equilibrium pricing and its rel...