On the asymptotic optimality of the randomized linear program for network revenue management

Huseyin Topaloglu

European Journal of Operational Research, 2009, vol. 197, issue 3, 884-896

Abstract: For network revenue management problems, it is known that the bid prices computed through the so-called deterministic linear program are asymptotically optimal as the capacities on the flight legs and the expected numbers of product requests increase linearly with the same rate. In this paper, we show that the same asymptotic optimality result holds for the bid prices computed through the so-called randomized linear program. We computationally investigate how the performance of the randomized linear program changes with different problem parameters and with the number of samples. The hope is that our asymptotic optimality result and computational experiments will raise awareness for the randomized linear program, which has yet not been popular in the research community or industry.

Keywords: OR; in; airlines; Revenue; management; Control (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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