Hospitality industry plays a crucial role in the development of tourism. Predicting future demand hotel is key step process revenue management. Hotel passenger flow prediction an important guiding formulation pricing and operating strategies. On one hand, can provide decision support for managers effectively avoid waste resources loss caused by customers. other it guarantee priority occupation ...

............................................................................................................................. 22 1. Chapter One Introduction ............................................................................................. 23 1.1. Research Background .............................................................................................. 24 1.2. Research Motiva...

Luxfer Gas Cylinders, a global manufacturer and distributor, provides an apt illustration of Kaplan and Norton’s six-stage management system (see On Balance story). A 2006 BSC Hall of Fame winner, the U.K.-based company (with operations in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, and North America), excels at three stages: planning the strategy, aligning the organization, and planning operations—in par...

Operations strategy has been a subject of empirical research for 25 years. We analyzed the outcomes of 33 empirical studies on competitive priorities, published between 1983 and 2007, and identified trends in operations strategy since the early 1980s. At that time, researchers mainly emphasized the importance of flexibility in operations; however, we found that quality has consistently been the...

Evolution Programs (EPs), including Genetic Algorithms and Evolution Strategies, are well-suited for pipe network optimization problems due to the large number of candidate solutions to be examined, non-linearity of the problem and discrete decision space. However, pipe network problems are highly constrained and random initialization and standard genetic operators often cause infeasibility of ...