Pricing commodities

نویسندگان

  • Robert Krauthgamer
  • Aranyak Mehta
  • Atri Rudra
چکیده

How should a seller price her goods in a market where each buyer prefers a single good among his desired goods, and will buy the cheapest such good, as long as it is within his budget? We provide efficient algorithms that compute near-optimal prices for this problem, focusing on a commodity market, where the range of buyer budgets is small. We also show that our LP rounding based technique easily extends to a different scenario, in which the buyers want to buy all the desired goods, as long as they are within budget.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Theor. Comput. Sci.

دوره 412  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011