The "Dynamic App for Tourism Agency Management" is a web-based solution revolutionizing tourism agency operations. Streamlining tour package management, booking handling, and expenses, it empowers agencies to create dynamic packages. Tourists benefit from user portal easy customization booking. With robust expense tracking, ensure transparency efficiency. This application redefines the industry...

Online bookings of hotels have increased drastically throughout recent years. Studies in tourism and hospitality have investigated the relevance of hotel attributes influencing choice but did not yet explore them in an online booking setting. This paper presents findings about consumers’ stated preferences for decision criteria from an adaptive conjoint study among 346 respondents. The results ...

We consider a two-period airline yield management problem where customers may act strategically. Specifically, we allow for the possibility that a customer may decide to defer purchase in the hope that a ticket cheaper than those currently on offer will become available. We also allow for the possibility that some customers will buy a more expensive ticket if the cheaper tickets are not availab...

Our society has been computerised and globalised due to emergence and spread of information and communications technology (ICT). This enables us to investigate our own socio-economic systems based on large amounts of data on human activities. In this article, methods of treating complexity arising from a vast amount of data, and linking data from different sources, are discussed. Furthermore, s...

This paper presents a new approach for dynamically increasing the coverage of a Statistical Dialog Manager. A Stochastic Finite-State Transducer for dialog management is estimated using a dialog simulator. This corpusbased model can cover most typical user behavior; however, sometimes unexpected situations may arise. Whenever these situations occur, the Dialog Manager model has no information t...

Mixed Process algebra and Petri Nets (MPPN) combine Petri net constructs and Process algebra. The modeling language implies a compact representation of complex systems. For general resource booking problems MPPN is used for routing speci cations and modeling of resources. These models are formally con verted into ordinary Petri nets. The Petri net representations are easily converted into eÆcie...

This paper describes the main features of an agent-based application that provides medical services to users. The system contains agents that give information about the medical centres, departments and doctors of a city. These units coordinate their execution in order to offer to the user diverse functionalities such as searching for a medical centre, accessing the medical record or booking a v...