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Paper #1305

Títol:
Equivalence of piecewise-linear approximation and Lagrangian relaxation for network revenue management
Autors:
Sumit Kunnumkal i Kalyan Talluri
Data:
Desembre 2011 (Revisió: Novembre 2012)
Resum:
The network revenue management (RM) problem arises in airline, hotel, media, and other industries where the sale products use multiple resources. It can be formulated as a stochastic dynamic program but the dynamic program is computationally intractable because of an exponentially large state space, and a number of heuristics have been proposed to approximate it. Notable amongst these -both for their revenue performance, as well as their theoretically sound basis- are approximate dynamic programming methods that approximate the value function by basis functions (both affine functions as well as piecewise-linear functions have been proposed for network RM) and decomposition methods that relax the constraints of the dynamic program to solve simpler dynamic programs (such as the Lagrangian relaxation methods). In this paper we show that these two seemingly distinct approaches coincide for the network RM dynamic program, i.e., the piecewise-linear approximation method and the Lagrangian relaxation method are one and the same.
Paraules clau:
network revenue management, linear programming, approximate dynamic programming, Lagrangian relaxation methods
Codis JEL:
C61, L93, L83, M11
Àrea de Recerca:
Gestió de la Producció i de les Operacions

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