From 7b3572fe1b50b5385603f53e9e0d8212937dcdad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Rosel Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 21:22:26 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] alining format to fit the rubric --- paper/src/chapters/02-literature-review.tex | 4 +++ paper/src/main.tex | 38 +++++++-------------- paper/src/preamble.tex | 23 +++++++++++-- 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) diff --git a/paper/src/chapters/02-literature-review.tex b/paper/src/chapters/02-literature-review.tex index fc34e6b..2f9d579 100644 --- a/paper/src/chapters/02-literature-review.tex +++ b/paper/src/chapters/02-literature-review.tex @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ When dynamic pricing algorithms operate on highly contaminated or noisy data, th \subsection{Theoretical Foundations: Economic Parallels} + + +Early hints of exploration of prices in a standard English auction explored in Economic Mechanism Design for Computerized Agents which hints at exploration of prices in a sequential manner, which leads to a marginally different cost to the bidder than the reservation price of the seller. This is a setting in which there is no cost incured by the buyer for their actions or exploring prices in the market. They propose that any agent responsable for the pricing of a good must be imune to dynamic strategies which might extract private information from a market. A key take-away which relates to the Vickery auction mechanism (also called a \textit{direct mechanism}) suggests that not only would defenses against such exploitation be necessary, but the construction of a mechanism in which revelation of the true willingness to pay is the dominant strategy for commerce. + Economic foundations: relating the problem to options pricing theory. Cost of Information (COI) concept and its relevance Link Coasean Singularity and other economic market theory and highlight specific information of supra competitive pricing. diff --git a/paper/src/main.tex b/paper/src/main.tex index 46ac81e..6506fcf 100644 --- a/paper/src/main.tex +++ b/paper/src/main.tex @@ -1,9 +1,6 @@ % -*- TeX-master: t -*- -\documentclass[manuscript,nonacm,natbib=false]{acmart} +\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article} -% Remove ACM copyright/conference info for thesis -\settopmatter{printacmref=false} -\renewcommand\footnotetextcopyrightpermission[1]{} \pagestyle{plain} \input{preamble} @@ -12,30 +9,21 @@ \title{Pricing Heuristics Against Non-human Transaction Orchestration Mechanisms} -\author{Daniel Rösel} -\authornote{Primary author and student researcher} -\email{daniel@alves.world} -\affiliation{% - \institution{IE University} - \city{Madrid} - \country{Spain} +\author{ + Daniel Rösel\thanks{Primary author and student researcher. Email: daniel@alves.world} \\ + IE University, Madrid, Spain \\[1em] + Alberto Martín Izquierdo\thanks{Thesis advisor. Email: amartini@faculty.ie.edu} \\ + IE University, Madrid, Spain } -\author{Alberto Martín Izquierdo} -\authornote{Thesis advisor} -\email{amartini@faculty.ie.edu} -\affiliation{% - \institution{IE University} - \city{Madrid} - \country{Spain} -} +\date{\today} + +\maketitle \begin{abstract} The primary objective of this thesis is to develop and validate pricing heuristics that protect e-commerce platforms from systematic exploitation by Large Language Model (LLM) agents within dynamic pricing environments. As AI agents increasingly mediate consumer transactions, they enable users to circumvent the Cost of Information (the price premium accumulated through demand signal expression) by conducting reconnaissance in isolated sessions before executing purchases through clean sessions at base prices. This research will make an anticipatory contribution by adapting recommendation system methodologies to distinguish between genuine human browsing behavior and agent-orchestrated information gathering, thereby enabling pricing systems to maintain margin integrity without degrading the user experience for legitimate customers or getting rid of leads generated by LLMs. \end{abstract} -\maketitle - \input{chapters/01-intro} \input{chapters/02-literature-review} @@ -45,15 +33,13 @@ The primary objective of this thesis is to develop and validate pricing heuristi \input{chapters/06-conclusion} -\begin{acks} - Eugene Bykovets, PhD - ETH for helping with problem formulation \\ - Research supported with Cloud TPUs from Google’s TPU Research Cloud (TRC). -\end{acks} +\section*{Acknowledgments} +Eugene Bykovets, PhD - ETH for helping with problem formulation. +Research supported with Cloud TPUs from Google's TPU Research Cloud (TRC). \printbibliography \clearpage -\onecolumn \appendix \section{Terminology} \begin{description} diff --git a/paper/src/preamble.tex b/paper/src/preamble.tex index 4bdf531..c24e7cf 100644 --- a/paper/src/preamble.tex +++ b/paper/src/preamble.tex @@ -1,6 +1,25 @@ -% acmart already includes: graphicx, hyperref, booktabs, amsmath, natbib -% Only load packages not included in acmart +% Math packages (load before fonts to avoid conflicts) +\usepackage{amsmath} +\usepackage{amsthm} +% Define theorem environments +\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem} +\newtheorem{definition}{Definition} +\newtheorem{lemma}{Lemma} +\newtheorem{corollary}{Corollary} + +% Font and spacing +\usepackage{newtxtext,newtxmath} +\usepackage{setspace} +\doublespacing + +% Page geometry +\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry} + +% Essential packages +\usepackage{graphicx} +\usepackage{hyperref} +\usepackage{booktabs} \usepackage{csquotes} \usepackage{subcaption} \usepackage{siunitx}