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A Multi-agent Scheduler for Rent-a-Car Companies

The paper gives overview of multi-agent dynamic scheduling solution for rent-a-car business domain. Specific requirements for cars and drivers scheduling, developed multi-agent and ontologybased approach for real time scheduling, systems architecture and performance measurements are presented. Key design decisions and results of first stage of developments are discussed. One of most important r...

2 Online Algorithms 2.1 Ski Rental Problem (rent-or-buy)

Online algorithms use a different model from what we’ve seen so far: the algorithm does not have the entire input at its beginning, but receives it piece by piece, sequentially, over time. After receiving each piece, the algorithm must immediately make a decision (updating a data structure, buying/selling stocks) which each have an associated cost. Ultimately, the goal of the algorithm is to mi...

Sustaining Competitive Advantage through a Value Net: The Case of Enterprise Rent-A-Car

Information technology (IT) has long been seen as possessing an inherent potential to facilitate sustained competitive advantage, i.e., value-creating strategies that are difficult for others to imitate. But successfully fashioning and executing long-lived IT-enabled strategic actions are becoming ever more challenging as hardware costs continue to decrease, off-the-shelf software reflecting in...

“One discriminatory rent” or “double jeopardy”: Multi-component negotiation for new car purchases

Web Service-based tour-and-charging Scheduler Framework for Rent-a-car Systems Employing Electric Vehicles

This paper presents a flexible service framework for tour-and-charging schedulers based on web services, aiming at providing an energy-efficient tour schedule services to electric vehicles. For a rent-a-car system which is a promising business model capable of dealing with high cost of electric vehicles, this service decides the visiting order for renters who want to visit multiple tour spots a...