A Comparison of Multiple-Unit All-Pay and Winner-Pay Auctions under Incomplete Information by Yasar Barut, Dan Kovenock, and Charles Noussair This paper examines the properties of independent-private-value all-pay and winner-pay auctions when there are multiple units sold. We study bidding behavior, efficiency and revenue in a set of nine experimental sessions, each with six bidders. All-pay au...

Recommender Systems (RS) play a vital role in applications such as e-commerce and on-demand content streaming. Research on RS has mainly focused on the customer perspective, i.e., accurate prediction of user preferences and maximization of user utilities. As a result, most existing techniques are not explicitly built for revenue maximization, the primary business goal of enterprises. In this wo...

background the non-revenue water refers to a difference between the volume of water entering the system and billed authorized consumption. objectives the main purpose of this study is to determine the volume of non-revenue water in order to recognize the factors influencing water losses so that the information gathered can used in non-revenue water reduction management. materials and methods ka...

Demand forecasting is a crucial component of revenue management, as forecasts are almost always inputs into optimization routines for pricing decisions. The performance of many revenue management systems often depends critically on the quality of demand forecasts. Indeed, industry estimates suggest that a 20% reduction of forecast error may lead to 1% incremental increase in revenue (Talluri an...

As vehicles become more fuel-efficient and overall levels of travel stagnate in response to increases in fuel prices, conventional sources of revenue for transportation finance such as taxes on motor fuels have been put under increasing pressure. One potential replacement as a source of revenue is a set of policies collectively referred to as value capture policies. In contrast to fuel taxes an...

We also evaluated our hypotheses using two additional firm performance measures: Tobin’s Q, which is the total dollar amount market value divided by the total dollar amount replacement value of a firm in a given year) and operating revenue/total assets, which is the total dollar amount of revenue divided by total dollar amount of assets of a firm in a given year. We selected these measures beca...