To formulate a single-leg seat inventory control problem in an airline ticket sales system, the concept and techniques of revenue management are applied in this research. In this model, it is assumed the cabin capacity is stochastic and hence its exact size cannot be forecasted in advance, at the time of planning. There are two groups of early-reserving and late-purchasing customers demanding t...

Constrained optimization problems have a wide range of applications in science, economics, and engineering. In this paper, a neural network model is proposed to solve a class of nonsmooth constrained optimization problems with a nonsmooth convex objective function subject to nonlinear inequality and affine equality constraints. It is a one-layer non-penalty recurrent neural network based on the...

Lemma A.1 (a) A real-valued convex function is also 0-convex and hence k-convex for all k ≥ 0. A k1-convex function is also a k2-convex function for k1 ≤ k2. (b) If f1(y) and f2(y) are k1-convex and k2-convex respectively, then for α, β ≥ 0, αf1(y) + βf2(y) is (αk1 + βk2)-convex. (c) If f(y) is k-convex and w is a random variable, then E{f(y − w)} is also k-convex, provided E{|f(y − w)|} < ∞ fo...