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The role of special agents in today's world: agent-based modeling and simulation of store performance for personalized pricing

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In this paper, a simulation-based approach of optimizing a grocery store's performance is discussed. Currently, most of the grocery stores provide special discounts to their customers under different loyalty card programs. We believe that a more determined approach such as personalized pricing could enable retailers to optimize their store performance. The objective of this paper is to determine the feasibility of personalized pricing to optimize store performance and compare it with the traditional product-centered approach. Each customer is modeled as an agent and his/her shopping behavior is obtained from transaction data using factors such as customer's product consumption rate, brand loyalty and price sensitivity. Then, the overall shopping behavior is simulated and the store performance is optimized. The results showed that personalized pricing outperforms the traditional product-centered approach significantly. It is expected that successful implementation of this work will impact grocery retail significantly by increasing the customer satisfaction and profits.

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    WSC '03: Proceedings of the 35th conference on Winter simulation: driving innovation
    December 2003
    2094 pages
    ISBN:0780381327

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    • IIE: Institute of Industrial Engineers
    • INFORMS/CS: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences/College on Simulation
    • ASA: American Statistical Association
    • ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
    • SIGSIM: ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling
    • IEEE/CS: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Computer Society
    • NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology
    • (SCS): The Society for Modeling and Simulation International
    • IEEE/SMCS: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society

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    WSC03: Winter Simulation Conference 2003
    December 7 - 10, 2003
    Louisiana, New Orleans

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    • (2008)Simulation modeling and analysis for in-store merchandizing of retail stores with enhanced information technologyProceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation10.5555/1516744.1517042(1702-1710)Online publication date: 7-Dec-2008

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