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Dr. K. Ravi Kumar
27 July 2001
 

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In today��s information economy, low cost up-to-date information enables consumers to be well-informed about products and prices. In competitive environment, sellers adapt dynamic pricing strategies to attract consumers.
This talk focuses on Reinforcement Learning based approaches to dynamic pricing.


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Dr. Kumar received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. He is currently with e-commerce group of IBM Research Division. His research interests are Internet auctions, supply chain management, stochastic games and Reinforcement Theory.