Demo Data from VLDB 2026 / reviewers in the wild / expert
Roger Lederman
dblp:53/4459
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0002-7031-5326ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Computational finance and economics · 67% Computational social science and digital humanities · 33% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Data mining · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computational social science and digital humanities › behavioral modeling
discrete choice modeling |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Choice Modeling and Pricing for Scheduled Services · KDD (1) 2026 |
Computational finance and economics › pricing
price optimization |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Choice Modeling and Pricing for Scheduled Services · KDD (1) 2026 |
Computational finance and economics
pricing |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Choice Modeling and Pricing for Scheduled Services · KDD (1) 2026 |
Data mining › predictive modeling › classification
decision tree learning |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Choice Modeling and Pricing for Scheduled Services · KDD (1) 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
decision tree · 2.0a/b testing · 2.0discrete choice models · 1.0discrete choice model · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Choice Modeling and Pricing for Scheduled ServicesabstractWe describe a novel framework for discrete choice modeling and price optimization for settings where scheduled service options (often hierarchical) are offered to customers, which is applicable across many businesses including some within Amazon. In such business settings, the customers would see multiple options, often substitutable, with their features and their prices. These options typically vary in the start and/or end time of the service requested, such as the date of service or a service time window. The costs and demand can vary widely across these different options, resulting in the need for different prices. We propose a system which allows for segmenting the marketplace (as defined by the particular business) using decision trees, while using parametric discrete choice models within each market segment to accurately estimate conversion behavior. Using parametric discrete choice models allows us to capture important behavioral aspects like reference price effects which naturally occur in scheduled service applications. In addition, we provide natural and fast heuristics to do price optimization. For one such Amazon business where we conducted a live A/B experiment, this new framework outperformed the existing pricing system in every key metric, increasing our target performance metric by 19%, while providing a robust platform to support future new services of the business. The model framework has now been in full production for this business since Q4 2023. Adam N. Elmachtoub, Kumar Goutam, Roger Lederman |
KDD (1) | 3 |
| 2022 | Revenue Management with Product Retirement and Customer Selection
Adam N. Elmachtoub, Vineet Goyal, Roger Lederman, Harsh Sheth |
WINE | 3 |