As Grid and P2P computing become more and more popular, many schedule algorithms based on economics rather than traditional pure computing theory have been proposed. Such algorithms mainly concern balancing resource supply and resource demand via economic measures. As we know, fairness and efficiency are two conflicting goals. In this paper, we argue that overbooking resources can greatly impro...

Attendance is one of the most important profit indicators for small city teams, as it visually represents ticket sales and customer loyalty. high frequently indicates business potential value team IP athletes. It key metrics that investors must evaluate. The natural disadvantage geographic location has forced teams to make marketing strategy adjustments improve attendance in face inconsistent r...

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...

Revenue management techniques, practiced for many years in the airline and hotel industries, have gained popularity with retailers. One such technique — dynamic pricing — refers to the intelligent process of controlling prices over a course of a sales season in a way that maximizes expected revenues. In this paper, we consider a retailer who sells a fashionable good during a short sales season,...

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 paper addresses two problems of Bluetooth which arise in situations where a user device performs transactions with a specific server device out of a number of similar devices in the proximity, such as ticket machines or point-of-sales terminals. Firstly, the server that a connection should be set up with, needs to be uniquely identified and selected. Secondly, with the current Bluetooth pro...

Conventional marketing wisdom holds that a customer orientation provides a firm with a better understanding of its customers, which subsequently leads to enhanced customer satisfaction and firm performance. However, there are cautions that being too customer focused can lead to inertia, and anecdotal evidence suggests that it may be better to "ignore your customer" when developing new products....

An e-business’ economic well-being is dependent on the correctness of its e-processes. This reliance provides the incentive to invest and promote tools to verify e-process design and implementation. Model checking, an advanced formal verification method, can support this need (Wang, Hidvégi, Bailey, Jr. and Whinston 2000). Temporal logic, coupled with automata-theoretic verification, provides a...

The authors thank the referee for the constructive and helpful comments. Our detailed replies to the referee 2’s comments (in Italic) are given below. Anonymous Referee 2 This manuscript discusses an important topic, the contribution of ion-induced nucleation on atmospheric new particle formation. It is well-written, and in its current form, discreet, compared to the original manuscript. It is ...