Host Profit Maximization: Leveraging Performance Incentives and User Flexibility
Summary: Maximizes a social host’s profit under performance-based payments, influence-source costs, and merchant adoption balance. Introduces Dynamic State Switching for users who reconsider products during comparative shopping, yielding a non-monotone submodular problem with scalable greedy guarantees. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Xueqin Chang (Zhejiang University)
- 2. Xiangyu Ke (Zhejiang University)
- 3. Lu Chen (Zhejiang University)
- 4. Congcong Ge (Huawei)
- 5. Ziheng Wei (Huawei)
- 6. Yunjun Gao (Zhejiang University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{chang_vldb24,
title = {{Host Profit Maximization: Leveraging Performance Incentives and User Flexibility}},
author = {Chang, Xueqin and Ke, Xiangyu and Chen, Lu and Ge, Congcong and Wei, Ziheng and Gao, Yunjun},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '24},
volume = {17},
number = {1},
pages = {51--64},
doi = {10.14778/3617838.3617843},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3617838.3617843},
year = {2024}
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