We formulate and analyze a Markov decision process (dynamic programming) model for airline seat allocation (yield management) on a single-leg flight with multiple fare classes. Unlike previous models, we allow cancellation, no-shows, and overbooking. Additionally, we make no assumptions on the arrival patterns for the various fare classes. Our model is also applicable to other problems of reven...

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Due to the drastic digitalization, public transportation industry has transformed its service strategies by introducing a mobile application-based taxi system. Mobile Taxi Booking (MTB) Apps have become very popular in Sri Lanka due abundance of smartphones. The study attempted examine customer intention use online Taxi-Booking App’s referred Theory Planned Behavior research context. descriptiv...

Anaemia has been reported as one of the commonest medical complications associated with pregnancy in developing countries. It increases maternal, fetal and neonatal morbidity mortality significantly. In Nigeria, maternal anaemia usually predates period life most mothers. These women succumb to early unprepared marriage, give birth many children poor child spacing due poverty ignorance they book...

In manufacturing, providers are interested both in a revenue maximizing allocation of their limited production capacity (as goal of revenue management) and the establishment of long-term business relations with their clients (as goal of customer relationship management). Due to long-term contracts and strategic reference customers, users of traditional revenue management systems already account...

Scheduling surgeries is a challenging task due to the fundamental uncertainty of the clinical environment, as well as the risks and costs associated with underand over-booking. We investigate neural regression algorithms to estimate the parameters of surgery case durations, focusing on the issue of heteroscedasticity. We seek to simultaneously estimate the duration of each surgery, as well as a...

Many airlines are struggling to survive in today's economy. A crucial contribution to the success of an airline is an e cient management of its revenues. The problem underlying revenue management is for the airline to decide whether to accept customer requests for air travel on a real time basis in order to maximize its expected revenue. Typically, an airline o ers several products (itinerary a...

A set of manufacturers outsource certain operations to a single third-party. Each available day of production at the third party can be booked at a given cost announced by him. Knowing these costs, manufacturers book available production days in a first-come-first-served (FCFS) order so as to optimize their individual cost. The cost for each manufacturer consists of booking and work-in-progress...

We consider a model where a group of manufacturers outsource finishing operations to a single third-party. Depending on the demand for her capacity, the third-party announces daily booking costs that may take on one of two prices regular or peak price. Each manufacturer books chunks of production capacity (called manufacturing windows) so as to optimize his booking and tardiness costs subject t...

INTRODUCTION Antenatal care (ANC) is important for both maternal and fetal health. However, the existing evidence from developing countries indicates that most pregnant women attending ANC in their late pregnancy. Little is known about the factors determining ANC booking and the content of care among pregnant women in West part of Ethiopia. Therefore, the present study was conducted to identify...