• DocumentCode
    2121282
  • Title

    A Model of Competition in Service Management

  • Author

    Friesz, Terry L. ; Kwon, Changhyun ; Rigdon, Matthew A.

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802. Email: tfriesz@psu.edu
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    27-29 Aug. 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    In this paper we are concerned with a class of mathematical problems that arise when modeling dynamic competition among conflicting agents may reach a dynamic equilibrium. We call this class of problems differential variational inequalities. We present a numerical method to solve differential variational inequalities, so-called the fixed point algorithm very briefly. We are further interested in the application of models belonging to this class of problems to the study of problems appearing in service management. As an example, we introduce a dynamic pricing model in service providers´ competition.
  • Keywords
    Biology computing; Computational modeling; Dynamic equilibrium; Dynamic programming; Game theory; Manufacturing industries; Mathematical model; Pricing; Pulp manufacturing; Virtual manufacturing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, 2007. SOLI 2007. IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1118-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1118-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383870
  • Filename
    4383870