Students were given lottery tickets and then were asked to exchange their ticket for another one, plus a small monetary incentive. Less than 50% agreed. In contrast, when given pens, and the same exchange offer, over 90% agreed. Experimental control rules out that the reluctance to exchange lottery tickets results (a) from overestimation of the winning probability of one's own ticket; (b) from ...

Many subgroups in today’s society are not skilled in using novel technologies. Even everyday technologies pose a barrier to technically nonskilled people and – if they fail to use them – exclude them from important parts of daily life. In this paper we discuss the relevance of self-efficacy for the use of one specific kind of everyday technology: the ticket vending machine. Results from observa...

For the sustainable development of Korean Professional Baseball League (a.k.a., KBO League), it is critical to propose profitable and efficient pricing strategies for each team in League. Therefore, purpose this study was understand fans’ perceptions price sensitivity. More specifically, explored how sensitivity latitude acceptance vary between different loyalty groups. A total 213 valid respon...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Ticket-switching Retail store Information system-based inventory Actual inventory Inventory inaccuracies in retail stores result from a combination of controllable and uncontrollable factors such as theft, damage, spoilage, misplacement, process errors, ticket-switching, among others. While most shrinkage types affect only one (type of) item, ticket-switching sim...

Observation of social and economic trends (falling population in the inner city of Paris, increased commuter flows between the centre and the suburbs, and demand for local ticket prices) has led the Syndicat des Transports Parisiens (STP, the Paris transport authority) to re -examine the ticket price system as it is today. Reform of this system will involve a great many stakeholders in the tran...

This memo documents a method for a Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) to respond to client requests for Kerberos tickets when the client does not have detailed configuration information on the realms of users or services. The KDC will handle requests for principals in other realms by returning either a referral error or a cross-realm Ticket-Granting Ticket (TGT) to another realm on the refe...

IT systems of today’s enterprises are continuously monitored and managed by a team of resolvers. Any problem in the system is reported in the form of trouble-tickets. A ticket contains various details of the observed problem. However, the knowledge of the actual problem is hidden in the ticket description along with other information. Knowledge of issues helps the service providers to better pl...

Air ticket sales revenue is an important source of revenue for travel agencies, and if future air ticket sales revenue can be accurately forecast, travel agencies will be able to advance procurement to achieve a sufficient amount of cost-effective tickets. Therefore, this study applied the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Genetic Algorithms (GA) to establish a prediction model of travel agen...

The Kassa module is part of a ticket ordering system developed by a company. It is a front-end running on client machines used by ticket sales clerks in ticket agencies and box offices. The Kassa module is operational and several of the company’s customers use it. The module is written in Java and about ten years old. The architecture of the Kassa module has become deprecated and is hard to mai...

Several authors have argued that because modern computing and communications technologies reduce buyer search costs and other market inefficiencies, there should be intense price competition between sellers in electronic markets. This paper examines this prediction using data on the airline ticket offerings of online travel agents (OTA). We find that different OTAs offer tickets with substantia...