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Strategic Pricing and Ranking in Recommendation Systems with Seller Competition
Tushar Shankar Walunj, Veeraruna Kavitha, Jayakrishnan Nair +1
We study a recommendation system where sellers compete for visibility by strategically offering commissions to a platform that optimally curates a ranked menu of items and their re…
Price equilibria with positive margins in loyal-strategic markets with discrete prices
Gurkirat Wadhwa, Akansh Verma, Veeraruna Kavitha +1
In competitive supply chains (SCs), pricing decisions are crucial, as they directly impact market share and profitability. Traditional SC models often assume continuous pricing for…
Punitive policies to combat misreporting in dynamic supply chains
Madhu Dhiman, Atul Maurya, Veeraruna Kavitha +1
Wholesale price contracts are known to be associated with double marginalization effects, which prevents supply chains from achieving their true market share. In a dynamic setting…
Queue or lounge: strategic design for strategic customer
Riya Sultana, Khushboo Agarwal, Veeraruna Kavitha
Considering an M/M/1 queue with an additional lounge facility (LF), the quest of this paper is to understand the instances when LF is an attractive option, from customer perspectiv…
What should the encroaching supplier do in markets with some loyal customers? A Stackelberg Game Approach
Gurkirat Wadhwa, Veeraruna Kavitha
Considering a supply chain with partial vertical integration, we attempt to seek answers to several questions related to the cooperation competition based friction, abundant in suc…
Constrained Average-Reward Intermittently Observable MDPs
Konstantin Avrachenkov, Madhu Dhiman, Veeraruna Kavitha
In Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) with intermittent state information, decision-making becomes challenging due to periods of missing observations. Linear programming (LP) methods…