Passengers on the same commercial airline flight—sometimes even those in adjoining seats—may pay fares that vary widely. This fact has led to dissatisfaction by some passengers who believe their ticket prices are too high and that airline ticketing practices are unfair. In an effort to reduce their cost of flying, some passengers have attempted to use " hidden-city " and " back-to-back " ticket...

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...

Abstract- In a typical competitive electricity market, a large number of short-term and long-term contracts are set on basis of energy price by an Independent System Operator (ISO). Under such circumstances, accurate electricity price forecasting can play a significant role in improving the more reasonable bidding strategies adopted by the electricity market participants. So, they cannot only r...

Forest-land managers use price data and market analysis to form expectations and make informed management decisions. There is an abundance of price data for sawtimber, but for nonsawtimber, the availability of price data is limited. This constrains the ability of forest-land managers to form reasonable price expectations for stands that contain both sawtimber and nonsawtimber. In this paper, I ...

We introduce a model that allows anonymous yet accountable access to services in mobile communication systems. This model is based on the introduction of a new business role, called the customer care agency, and a ticket based mechanism for service access. We introduce the general idea of ticket based service access, and present a categorisation of ticket types and ticket acquisition models. We...

A ticket server architecture was proposed in [1] and [2] to issue tickets to ensure access to communications resources in crisis situations. End users interact directly with servers using intelligent agents that use an agent communication language. Here a hybrid simulation approach is used to assess ticket server performance requirements and network administrative overhead. The negotiation inte...

In an interactive multimedia environment that handles multiple sessions dynamically, a mechanism for controlling the QOS among sessions is very important. It is, however, di cult to achieve such QOS control without any system support. A new resourcemanagement mechanism and QOS-control architecture for multimedia applications are needed. This paper rst discusses features required for such archit...

This paper proposes a concept of how to collect toll on highways. Unlike any existing method, the proposed approach requires no structure to be built on highways for the toll collection purpose and drivers are not required to stop or even slow down to pay toll. Toll must be prepaid in advance and a driver must keep a toll ticket as proof of payment. We apply public key cryptographic operations ...