Student competitions as highly valuable learning experiences

The price information that shopbots provide to buyers is clearly valuable, as it enables them to make a better informed choice of product and vendor. We quantify the value of this price information to the buyer in terms of the price dispersion and the ...

This article reports on the reinforcement learning competitions, which have been held annually since 2006. In these events, researchers from around the world developed reinforcement learning agents to compete in domains of various complexity and ...

• Fashion innovators and mobile device users are likely to belong to valuable segments.

This study addresses how the heterogeneity of customer profitability in different segments can be explained by the behavioral characteristics of their members. We categorize customers into several segments based on the purchase rate, ...