When purchasing tickets in advance, sports consumers are often faced with uncertainty. Most notably, in today’s real-time environment, it can be challenging for consumers to determine how ticket prices and seat availability will change over time. Guided by the generic advanced-booking decision model, the current study investigated the role of time, ticket source (primary or secondary market), a...

Quality of Service (QoS) routing in computer networks is an important component in QoS architectures in order to provide end-to-end QoS support. Two major issues make QoS routing difficult: (1) Most of the QoS routing problems are NP-hard, such as the Delay Constraint Least Cost Routing (DCLCR) problem; (2) Imprecise network information degrades the routing performance. Using DCLCR problem as a...

We describe a new network service, the “ticket server”. This service provides “tickets” that a client can attach to a request for a network service (such as sending email or asking for a stock quote). The recipient of such a request (such as the email recipient or the stockbroker) can use the ticker server to verify that the ticket is valid and that the ticket hasn’t been used before. Clients c...

Managing problem tickets is a key issue in IT service industry. A large service provider may handle thousands of problem tickets from its customers on a daily basis. The efficiency of processing these tickets highly depends on ticket routing—transferring problem tickets among expert groups in search of the right resolver to the ticket. Despite that many ticket management systems are available, ...

E-ticketing systems for public transportation (ESPT) are an integral part of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) which shape the urban environment of the future. The wide deployment of ESPT around the world has proven its success and demonstrated large potential. However, till now the majority of such systems being in operation adhere to the specific standards which are often closed. In th...

The Council of Representatives discussed alternative ways to conduct football ticket nxchanges at their meeting Tuesday. The Ticket Office discontinued the basic program this year of allowing a designated number of students to exchange for a fee their student ticket for a general admission ticket. It cited abuses of the system, including scalping of tickets, as a reason to end the program. This...

In this paper, taking Hangzhou Metro Line 1 Wulin Square Station for example, we dynamically optimize the opening number of the entrance ticket windows at the station based on Anylogic pedestrian library, and study the impact of some parameters e.g. the pedestrian arrival rate and the opening number of the ticket windows in peak and off-peak periods, etc., on the average queuing number and util...

The Delay-constrained least-cost routing problem is to find the least cost path which satisfies a given delay constraint. There are two major difficulties to solve this problem. The first difficulty is the NP-Completeness of this routing problem. The second difficulty is that the networking information used for routing may be imprecise. The ticket-based routing (TBR) algorithm[1], aiming to fin...

For broadband networks to be widely useful to society, they must dynamically recognize some connections, like those that deal with emergencies or natural disasters, as having greater importance than others. This paper proposes an architecture of geographically distributed ticket servers that issue importance tickets for connection admission. User agents contact ticket servers using an agent com...