Service Quality Parameters of Greek Dynamic Pricing Platforms

Strategic Pricing and Forecast Communication on On-Demand Service Platforms

On-demand service platforms (e.g., Uber, Lyft) match consumers with independent workers nearby at short notice. To manage uctuating supply and demand conditions across market locations (zones), many on-demand platforms provide market forecasts to workers and practice surge pricing, wherein the price in a particular zone is temporarily raised above the regular price. We jointly analyze the strat...

Static Pricing and Quality of Service in Multiple-Service Networks

This paper discusses static pricing policies for multiservice networks. We demonstrate how, by adopting an appropriate policy, the service provider is able to offer the needed incentives for each user to choose the service that best matches her needs, thereby discouraging overallocation of resources and improving social welfare. Furthermore, by indirectly revealing their QoS or resource require...

Web service and dynamic pricing competition

Article history: Received July 6 2014 Received in Revised Format August 5 2014 Accepted August 27 2014 Available online August 28 2014 Web services have become quite popular over the last few years as they allow easier development and integration of business applications. In this paper, we consider a web service pricing problem where two providers compete through dynamic pricing. Each provider ...

Dynamic Pricing to Control Loss Systems with Quality of Service Targets

Numerous examples of real time services arise in the service industry that can be modeled as loss systems. These include agent staffing for call centers, provisioning bandwidth for private line services, making rooms available for hotel reservations and congestion pricing for parking spaces. Given that arriving customers make their decision to join the system based on the current service price,...

Quality of Service Parameters for Internet Service Provision