Dynamic Pricing and Automated Resource Allocation for Complex Information Services
Many firms provide their customers with online information products which require limited resources such as server capacity. This book develops allocation mechanisms that aim to ensure an efficient resource allocation in modern IT-services. Recent methods
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Michael Schwind
Dynamic Pricing and Automated Resource Allocation for Complex Information Services Reinforcement Learning and Combinatorial Auctions
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Dr. Michael Schwind Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Campus Bockenheim Mertonstraße 17 60325 Frankfurt am Main Germany [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2007920183
ISSN 0075-8442 ISBN 978-3-540-68002-4 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media springer.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007 The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Production: LE-TEX Jelonek, Schmidt & V¨ ockler GbR, Leipzig Cover-design: WMX Design GmbH, Heidelberg SPIN 11941217
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Preface
Writing a PhD thesis is like climbing a high mountain in unknown terrain. There are many ups and downs on the way to the summit, and sometimes you think you will never reach it, especially if the summit is temporarily out of sight because you have somehow lost the orientation in the vast amount of academic literature and related problems. The best method to reach the summit was not to look at it permanently, but only to watch your steps on the way to the next peak, like a conference paper or a journal article. In the end, if you have to put things together and to prove that your initial idea did not lead into no man’s land, but did help you to discover some new route in the “terra icognita” of the scientific landscape, the air will be very thin. The last meters are in particular so exhausting that you hardly can enjoy the view from above when you have finally reached the summit. I would like to thank all the people that helped me to reach the summit. First of all I have to thank my academic adviser Prof. Dr. Wolfgang K¨ onig at the Institute for Information Systems (IWI) at Johann Wolfgang GoetheUniversity for giving me the opportunity to venture on my academic adventure. He always provided me with institutional support that was necessary on my long way up and encouraged me to give my best. The second important person on my journey was Prof. Dr. Oliver Wendt who not only showed me how to make the first expe
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