An automated deep reinforcement learning pipeline for dynamic pricing

RR Afshar, J Rhuggenaath, Y Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A dynamic pricing problem is difficult due to the highly dynamic environment and unknown
demand distributions. In this article, we propose a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) …

Optimal display-ad allocation with guaranteed contracts and supply side platforms

J Rhuggenaath, A Akcay, Y Zhang… - Computers & Industrial …, 2019 - Elsevier
We study a variant of the display-ad allocation problem where an online publisher needs to
decide which subset of advertisement slots should be used in order to fulfill guaranteed …

Online causal inference for advertising in real-time bidding auctions

C Waisman, HS Nair, C Carrion - Marketing Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Real-time bidding systems, which utilize auctions to allocate user impressions to competing
advertisers, continue to enjoy success in digital advertising. Assessing the effectiveness of …

A decision support method to increase the revenue of ad publishers in waterfall strategy

RR Afshar, Y Zhang, M Firat… - 2019 IEEE Conference …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Online advertising is one of the most important sources of income for many online
publishers. The process is as easy as placing slots in the website and selling those slots in …

Scalable optimal online auctions

D Coey, BJ Larsen, K Sweeney… - Marketing …, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper studies reserve prices computed to maximize the expected profit of the seller
based on historical observations of the top two bids from online auctions in an asymmetric …

[PDF][PDF] Interactively Learning the User's Utility for Best-Arm Identification in Multi-Objective Multi-Armed Bandits

M Reymond, E Bargiacchi, DM Roijers… - Proceedings of the 23rd …, 2024 - ifaamas.org
Many real-world problems have multiple, conflicting objectives. Without knowing the utility
function of the decision maker, one must extensively learn all Pareto-efficient trade-offs to …

Fuzzy logic based pricing combined with adaptive search for reserve price optimization in online ad auctions

J Rhuggenaath, A Akcay, Y Zhang… - 2019 IEEE international …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we consider an online publisher that sells advertisement space and propose a
method for learning optimal reserve prices in second-price auctions. We study a limited …

A PSO-based algorithm for reserve price optimization in online ad auctions

J Rhuggenaath, A Akcay, Y Zhang… - 2019 IEEE congress on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the main mechanisms that online publishers use in online advertising in order to sell
their advertisement space is the real-time bidding (RTB) mechanism. In RTB the publisher …

Dynamic ad network ordering method using reinforcement learning

RR Afshar, Y Zhang, U Kaymak - International Journal of Computational …, 2022 - Springer
Real time bidding is one of the most popular ways of selling impressions in online
advertising, where online ad publishers allocate some blocks in their websites to sell in …

[PDF][PDF] Predictive Modeling for the Bid Responses in the Huvle

YJ Cheon, SH Hwang, DG Seo… - Industrial Engineering …, 2023 - researchgate.net
As an online advertising business emerges as an important tool for finding new customers
and ending up with a profit creation, the real time bidding (RTB) system has gained a …