Optimal product design using conjoint analysis: Computational complexity and algorithms (Q1115344)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4085409
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    Optimal product design using conjoint analysis: Computational complexity and algorithms
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4085409

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      Optimal product design using conjoint analysis: Computational complexity and algorithms (English)
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      1989
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      The problem of maximizing the share of a new product introduced in a competitive market is shown to be NP-hard. A directed graph representation of the problem is used to construct shortest path and dynamic programming heuristics. Both heuristics are shown to have arbitrarily bad worst-case bounds. Computational experience with real- sized problems is reported. Both heuristics identify near-optimal solutions for the simulated problems, the dynamic programming heuristic performing better than the shortest path heuristic.
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      optimal product design
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      marketing
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      conjoint analysis
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      NP-hard
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      dynamic programming heuristics
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      worst-case
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      shortest path heuristic
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