The problem of maximizing the benefit from a specified number of a particular product with respect to the behavior of customer choices is regarded as revenue management. This managerial technique was first adopted by the airline industries before being widely used by many others such as hotel industries. The scope of this research is mainly focused on hotel revenue management, regarding which a...

The differentiated services (DiffServ) model has been proposed as a scalable traffic management mechanism to ensure Internet QoS without using per-flow resource reservation and per flow signaling, but it sacrifices the ability to accurately configure the network devices and efficiently utilize the network resources. In this thesis, the DiffServ model is augmented with traffic engineering tools,...

Deterministic mathematical programming models that capture network effects play a predominant role in the theory and practice of airline revenue management. These models do not address important issues like demand uncertainty, nesting, and the dynamic nature of the booking process. Alternatively, the network problem can be broken down into leg-based problems for which there are satisfactory sol...

In this paper, efficient filters are presented that approximate neural filters (NFs) that are trained to remove quantum noise from images. A novel analysis method is proposed for making clear the characteristics of the trained NF. In the proposed analysis method, an unknown nonlinear deterministic system with plural inputs such as the trained NF can be analyzed by using its outputs when the spe...

Businesses offering video-on-demand (VoD) and downloadable-CD sales are growing in the Internet. Batching of requests coupled with a one-to-many delivery mechanism such as multicast can increase scalability and efficiency. There is very little insight into pricing such services in a manner that utilizes network and system resources efficiently while also maximizing the expectation of revenue. I...

The design of a cellular network is a complex process that encompasses the selection and configuration of cell sites and the supporting network infrastructure. This investigation presents a net revenue maximizing model that can assist network designers in the design and configuration of a cellular system. The integer programming model takes as given a set of candidate cell locations with corres...

Nowadays, resource allocation for virtual networks (VNs) is brought as an imperative problem. For the characteristics of virtual networks, multiple virtual networks with different topo can co-exist on a shared infrastructure. A difficult point of problem is how to use the resource effectively and to satisfy the requirement of virtual network request. This problem is NP-hard. In this paper, we i...

Introducing a new concept of (α, β)-fairness, which allows for a bounded fairness compromise, so that a source is allocated a rate neither less than 0 ≤ α ≤ 1, nor more than β ≥ 1, times its fair share, this paper provides a framework to optimize efficiency (utilization, throughput or revenue) subject to fairness constraints in a general telecommunications network for an arbitrary fairness crit...

We address the fundamental issue of revenue and efficiency in the combinatorial and simultaneous auction using a novel approach. Specifically, upper and lower bounds are constructed for the first-price sealed-bid setting of these two auctions. The question of revenue is important yet very few results can be found in the literature. Only for very small instances with 2 items have comparisons bee...