Game-theoretic models in revenue management and dynamic pricing

近年来，收入管理(RM)在航空和酒店业的广泛报道以及在线预订和零售系统的扩展激发了许多新领域对收入管理和动态定价(DyP)的兴趣。在货运、汽车租赁服务、广播广告、体育和娱乐活动管理、时尚商品库存清理、医疗服务、房地产和制造业等不同领域已经实施或提议了RM应用程序。互联网销售渠道和销售点技术的快速增长为许多公司提供了新的RM能力。此外，有经验的消费者现在可能会策略性地采取行动，将他们的购买安排在预期的较低价格时期。在寡头垄断中运营的公司所面临的价格竞争这一难题，由于消费者可能的战略行为而变得更加复杂。拟议中的项目将帮助加拿大企业提高其RM能力，并在全球经济中保持竞争力。

In recent years, the widely reported successes of revenue management (RM) in the airline and hotel industries and the expansion of online booking and retail sales systems have stimulated interest in RM and dynamic pricing (DyP) in many new areas. RM applications have been implemented or proposed in such diverse areas as freight transportation, automobile rental services, broadcast advertising, sports and entertainment event-management, style goods inventory clearance, medical services, real estate, and manufacturing. The rapid growth in internet sales channels and point-of-sale technologies has given many firms new capabilities for RM. Also, experienced consumers may now behave strategically by timing their purchases to anticipated periods of lower price. The difficult problem of price competition faced by firms operating in an oligopoly is made an order of magnitude more complex by the potential for strategic behaviour of consumers. The proposed project will help Canadian businesses to improve their RM capacity and remain competitive in the global economy.