this paper focuses on formulating capacity-price trade off problem in yield management for manufactur-ing industry by drawing motivation from the remarkable success of yield management (ym) implementation in airlines. in the current practice, there is no alternative and procedure for the manufacturer, as well as cus-tomers to take advantage of using the unfulfilled capacity in discounted offers...

---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract — The aim of my paper is to automate the process of whole assembly plants by contributing for speeding up the production, qualitative and costefficient units. Interfacing IPMS with PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) the automobile manufacturing pl...

BACKGROUND Managing appointments in private medical practices and ambulatory care settings is a complex process. Various strategies to reduce missed appointments can be implemented. E-booking systems, which allow patients to schedule and manage medical appointments online, represents such a strategy. To better support clinicians seeking to offer an e-booking service to their patients, health au...

THE STUDY COMPARED TWO SCHEMES OF BOOKING FOR ANTENATAL CARE: booking at a health centre by general practitioners in conjunction with a hospital consultant or booking in a hospital clinic by hospital staff. the health centre scheme reduced the proportion of women booking late at 16 or more weeks gestation from 44% to 11% and at 20 weeks or more from 28% to 6%. There was no improvement in delay ...

Silver Surfers show constant growth rates in the usage of the internet and touristic internet services. This paper investigates specific user behaviour of senior people while being tested in a Usability Lab. The methodology of "Thinking Aloud" and "Retrospective Review" are compared with each other in terms of acceptance, utility and specific outcomes. In order to optimize web based booking pla...

This article provides a brief overview of New Zealand's experience in implementing booking systems for elective services in public hospitals. It identifies the basic features of the booking systems policy and explores the rationale and objectives for these policy settings. Progress with implementation of booking systems is explored and some of the challenges and recent developments are also out...

Based on the single-leg air cargo issues, we establish a dynamic programming model to consider the overbooking and space inventory control problem.We analyze the structure of optimal booking policy for every kind of booking requests and show that the optimal booking decision is of threshold type known as booking limit policy . Our research provides a theoretical support for the air cargo space ...

OBJECTIVE This study compared two methods of booking elective surgery - booking from wait lists and pre-booking surgery dates at the time of decision to operate - in terms of cancellations of elective procedures and time to surgery. METHODS The authors conducted simulation experiments with group randomized design, in which the unit of allocation was the hospital and the units of analysis were...

This paper studies decision rules for accepting reservations for stays in a hotel based on deterministic and stochastic mathematical programming techniques. Booking control strategies are constructed that include ideas for nesting, booking limits and bid prices. We allow for multiple day stays. Instead of optimizing a decision period consisting of a fixed set of target booking days, we simultan...