Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1142276 Operations Research Letters 2015 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

In this note we introduce the problem of assortment optimization over time. We have a sequence of time steps and can introduce one new product per time step. Once introduced a product cannot be removed. The goal is to determine which products to introduce so as to maximize revenue over all time steps under some choice model. Given a 1/α1/α-approximation algorithm for the capacitated assortment optimization problem we give a 1/2α1/2α-approximation algorithm for this problem.

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