Predicting attendance at events is important for efficient facility management and marketing to maximize crowds. Most work date conducted the aggregate level; however, large crowd size being predicted often means individual decisions are masked. In many markets, increased nonattendance by season ticket holders (STHs) reported, which troubling given they have prepaid expected be highly loyal. To...

After the 2003-2004 hockey season, the players’ union and NHL team owners failed to reach common ground on a new collective bargaining agreement resulting in the cancellation of the 2004-2005 hockey season. The cancellation brought fear among team franchises that a yearlong lockout would cause a decline in ticket sales, television ratings, and merchandising. During this time, the popularity of ...

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is a result of continuous work to define an industry-wide specification for developing applications that operate over wireless communication networks. The scope for the WAP Forum is to define a set of specifications to be used by service applications. Not everybody has a computer, but most of the people have mobiles. And not everybody knows how to use the int...

We propose using lotteries as an alternative payment mechanism through which to incentivize and recruit workers to microtasking. We present initial findings gained via experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk and focus on discussing the benefits and potential pitfalls in employing a lottery-based payment mechanism for microtasking. lottery-based Payment Mechanism Over the last few years, paid micr...

Electronic tickets demonstrate, without the use of paper, the possession of an authorization or access to a determined service. In this scenario, some security requirements must be accomplished. Moreover, some determined services should guarantee the anonymity of the users in the system. In addition to these requirements, the transferability of a ticket from one user to another (without involvi...