Hotel Management Contracts: a Particularly Rich Research Context

WebCall - A Rich Context Mobile Research Framework

The ever-increasing capability of mobile devices enables many mobile services far beyond a traditional voice call. In this paper, we present WebCall, a research framework on how to share and utilize the rich contextual information about users, such as phonebook, indoor and outdoor location, and calendar. WebCall also demonstrates a few services (e.g. human powered questions and answers) that ca...

The Management of Dod Laser Research Contracts

The research presented in this paper was supported in part by grants from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NsG-235) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. However, the findings and views reported are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the supporting organizations. The authors extend 1 their sincere thanks to Miss Kathy Blakeslee for her editorial assista...

A Discrete Stochastic Approach to Hotel Revenue Management

  A linear programming model has been presented for finding an appropriate planning in order to maximize hotel revenue. In this model, a special planning horizon has been considered that includes several busy days of a year. There are several reservation periods that may start a few months earlier. Each period of reservation may have different prices and so result different incomes. Hotel custo...

The identification of Noteworthy Hotel Reviews for Hotel Management

The rapid emergence of user-generated content (UGC) inspires knowledge sharing among Internet users. A good example is the well-known travel site TripAdvisor.com, which enables users to share their experiences and express their opinions on attractions, accommodations, restaurants, etc. The UGC about travel provide precious information to the users as well as staff in travel industry. In particu...

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