The Internet of Things (IoT) is developing rapidly and becoming a hot topic around the world. On the basis of the reorganized Unit IoT and Ubiquitous IoT, two models for Future IoT are proposed in this paper. A dimension model is established to classify the complicated IoT technologies and a layer model is built for Future IoT system architecture. Then, the IoT vision and its development phases...

The past decade has been a difficult one for the US airline industry. On the one hand, airline profits have been highly variable with net losses over the last ten years standing in the tens of billions of dollars. On the other hand, consumers continue to complain of predatory pricing and other such tactics. Our goal here will simply be to get an estimate of what is possible moving forward. We a...

Ever since the Deregulation Act in 1978 in the U.S. airline industry, there have been series of major airline mergers and acquisitions, notably three major waves in the 1980’s, 1990’s, and late 2000’s. These mergers, especially the more recent multi-billion mergers (e.g. DeltaNorthwest, United-Continental) have shown a trend of substantial market consolidation that inevitably worries consumers ...

Capt. Herbert Schwarz AICC [email protected] Abstract Learning management systems provide an indispensable basis for the manifold training requirements of flight crew, ground staff, engineering and maintenance personnel mandatory to the airline industry. Screening and deployment of such a system is a complex endeavor which is discussed against the background of specific requirements of the airl...

The railway industry offers similar revenue management opportunities to those found in the airline industry. The railway industry caters for the delivery and management of cargo as well as the transport of passengers. Unlike the airline industry, the railway industry has seen relatively little attention to revenue management problems. We provide an overview of the published literature for both ...

The crucial importance of software platforms was highlighted by recent events both at the political level (e.g. renewed calls for digital data and operating system " sovereignty " , following E. Snowden's revelations) and at the business level (e.g. Android generated a new industry worth tens of billions of euros yearly). In the IoT, which is expected to generate business at very large scale, w...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is maturing and more and more IoT platforms that give access to things are emerging. However, the real potential of the IoT lies in growing IoT cross-domain ecosystems on top of these platforms that will deliver new, unanticipated value added applications and services. We identified two crucial aspects that are important to grow an IoT ecosystem: (i) interoperabilit...

With the growth of commercial aviation over the last few decades there have been many applications designed to improve the efficiency of flight operations as well as safety and security. A number of these applications are based on the gathered data from flights; the data is usually acquired from the various sensors available on the aircraft. There are numerous sensors among the electrical and e...

Many e-commerce principles were pioneered in the airline industry. These include the first business-to-business electronic information exchange and industry-wide electronic marketplace. This environment provided unprecedented opportunity for operations research (OR) modeling. By the mid-1980s airlines used customer shopping data to calibrate traveler demand and choice models, analyzed multi-cha...