Journal
OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Volume 56, Issue 5, Pages 1104-1115Publisher
INFORMS
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1080.0617
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- NSERC (Canada)
- FQRNT (Quebec)
- France Telecom Research and Development [001B852]
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To optimize revenue, service firms must integrate within their pricing policies the rational reaction of customers to their price schedules. In the airline or telecommunication industry, this process is all the more complex due to interactions resulting from the structure of the supply network. In this paper, we consider a streamlined version of this situation where a firm's decision variables involve both prices and investments. We model this situation as a joint design and pricing problem that we formulate as a mixed-integer bilevel program, and whose properties are investigated. In particular, we take advantage of a feature of the model that allows the development of an algorithmic framework based on Lagrangean relaxation. This approach is entirely novel, and numerical results show that it is capable of solving problems of significant sizes.
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