Overbooking is a strategy of extra ticket reservation, which needs precise models concerning the probability of ticket acquisition. Without such models a company will have losses related to unused seats or compensation for the absence of these seats. In the paper we consider several models for such a forecast and demonstrate their functionality on real data of one Peruvian railway company. The ...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 62, No. 1, 2013 (“Community Informatics in China,” edited by Kate Williams), pp. 105–120. © 2013 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract This study discusses strategies for narrowing the digital divide by examining the real-name and ID requirement policy that governs online purchases of train tickets in China. Using a case study, the authors of this study ask...

The four tickets in this year’s student body presidential race disagreed on the issue of open­ ness in student government, but a g r e e d on th e n eed to tak e stronger action again st crim e during last night’s student body presidential debate. Both the Greg Butrus/M olly O’Neill ticket and the Rich Delevan/Joe Wilson ticket said they supported the closing of student g o v ern m en t m e e t...

Notre Dame students already fed up with ticket sales could add another gripe to the list after long lines made the Keenan Revue ticket d is tribu tion last only 23 minutes. Although ticke t w indows did not open until 2 p.m. Friday, the firs t students to receive tickets arrived at gate 10 o f the Joyce Center as early as 10 a.m. “A good portion o f the line was formed by 1 or 1:30 p.m.,” ticke...

For the Java component model J2EE, Sun has published guidelines which show how to use their technology effectively to create enterprise applications. These guidelines are illustrated in the two example enterprise application blueprints Pet Store and Smart Ticket. Since our group is working on a wireless project, we investigated the Smart Ticket demo application. This paper describes our experie...

This paper describes a new type of application, which we foresee will be available on mobile devices in the future. In this paper we describe how we designed the application. The application is a parking ticket application (V-Ticket) for use on mobile devices. The application tries to match the needs of the user whilst taking into account the problems inherent in small wireless handheld devices...

ion Characteristics 1 Problem explained on code level. Ticket contained implementation code, interface definitions. 2 Problem explained on functional level. Specifications were communicated in the ticket. 3 Problem explained as a vision. A design was requested, like screen proposals, use case diagrams and state charts. RESULT Figure 7 shows that the total amount of characters written by the cli...