INTRODUCTION ................................................................................... 243 BACKGROUND ...................................................................................... 245 I. THE ECONOMICS OF TICKET SNIPING ................................... 248 A. Long-term Revenue Maximization ....................................... 249 B. Inability to Price Discriminate .........

Squash is a racquet sport played in a similar style room as racquetball. In a squash match there are 2 players that alternate hitting a small, black, rubber ball. A complete match is played as best of 5 games, where each game is played to 11 points. Points are scored when a player fails to return a shot made by the opponent. The sport of squash is played in over 190 countries by millions of peo...

ion of event logs – Example Event Log Abstraction | Thomas Baier | 27 August 2013 3 Incident logging Incident classification & categorization Initial diagnosis Functional escalation Investigation and diagnosis Resolution and recovery Incident closure x x Case 1: Group, Classification, Details,..., Details,.............................................., Document solution, ..........................

This paper introduces a deceptively simple entity extraction task intended to encourage more interdisciplinary collaboration between fields that don’t normally work together: diarization, dialog and entity extraction. Given a corpus of 1.4M call center calls, extract mentions of trouble ticket numbers. The task is challenging because first mentions need to be distinguished from confirmations to...

Some studies have examined ticket sales in the context of a sporting event. However, only few investigated determinants prices, and, to date, none done so multidisciplinary sports mega-event. This study examines this complex paradigm through case World Swimming Championships held Barcelona, Spain. The particular focus was whether, such framework, same model analysis price could be applied equal...

The present paper does not claim to be a description of the TGTSystem, since it was already presented by Professor Friedman herself at the International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Stockholm in 1969. In addition the system has been described also in the book Jo'i'cE FRIEDMAN, A Computational Model of Transformational Grammar, Elsevier, 1971. Our intention is to present the new in...

Previous research has examined whether price dispersion exists in theoretically highly efficient Internet markets. However, much of the previous work has been focused on industries with low cost and undifferentiated products. In this paper, we examine the presence of price dispersion and product differentiation using data on the airline ticket offerings of online travel agents (OTAs). We find t...

In 2009, a non-iterative privacy preservation for online lotteries is proposed in IET Information Security by J.S lee, C.S Chan and C.C Chang [1], who claim their scheme achieve the following properties:  Privacy. No one can learn the choices made by lottery players except the players themselves.  Security. No one can counterfeit a winner or forge a winning lottery ticket to claim the prize. ...