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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"overbooking"”.
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A Selective Approach to Bandwidth Overbooking
<p>Overbooking is a technique used by network providers to increase bandwidth utilization. If the overbooking factor is chosen appropriately, additional virtual circuits can be admitted without degrading quality of service for existing customers. Most existing implementations use a single factor to …
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Tailors: Accelerating Sparse Tensor Algebra by Overbooking Buffer Capacity
… a speculative tensor tiling approach, called overbooking, to improve buffer utilization by taking advantage of the distribution of nonzero elements in sparse tensors to construct larger tiles with greater data reuse at the cost of occasional instances where data overflows the buffer. To ensure …
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United States business travelers' response to price changes and overbooking: Its effect on intentional loyalty in the hospitality industry
… effects perceived value and trust. Issues like overbooking, price thresholds, reference prices, and rate increases will also be examined by creating specific scenarios to capture the attitudes of the business traveler in each case.
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Airline passenger cancellations : modeling, forecasting and impacts on revenue management
… Several methods for cancellation forecasting and overbooking are presented and their impacts are tested under different demand, competition and RM strategy settings. All methods are based on time series modeling of historical observations. However, the methods differ in terms of the data they use …
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Pricing Strategy And General Admission In Sport Industry: Feasibility To Apply Overbooking & Evaluating The Impact Of Energy Management System In The Statler Hotel
… industry and analyzed the feasibility to apply overbooking by setting General Admission (GA) district in stadiums; the second project tested and evaluated the impact of an Energy Management System (EMS) in the Statler Hotel. Professional sport teams have been seeking all kinds of methods to make …
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Predicting Passenger Demand and Optimizing Fleet Allocation: A Machine Learning Approach for Icelandic Tour Operators
… achieved. At a 100% utilization target, a 22.76% overbooking rate was shown by the system, indicating that 77.24% of tours could be handled without additional monitoring or manual intervention. This rate was further improved when the utilization target was adjusted to 90%, resulting in only 13.77% …
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Temporal Bandwidth-Intensive Virtual Network Allocation Optimization in Data Centers
… availability is optimized. We present an overbooking strategy that may be employed to allow for some demands not met in the first try. For comparison, we also consider a base case where the allocation is pinned to a specific destination. Through our study, we show the comparative gains of …
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Reducing Patient No-Show Rates in Diabetes Clinic
… At many clinics no-shows have necessitated overbooking clinic slots to maintain efficiency (Muthuraman and Lawley 2008). However, patient no-shows themselves and the overbooking that no-shows necessitate causes problems for both the patient and provider. LOCAL PROBLEM: No-show rates have a …
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Trading Dynamics in a Fragmented Market
… across exchanges. Such strategy, called</p> <p>Overbooking, aims at executing only one of these orders rather than all of them and uses the</p> <p>availability of multiple exchanges to increase the probability of execution while limiting the risk</p> <p>of over execution thanks to their speed …
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Flexibility in Platform Operations
… service) and their compensation requirements for overbooking. In Chapter 4 we analyze an online resource allocation problem that allows overbooking and propose a policy that improves the additive profit loss guarantee (compared to a clairvoyant) in T periods from an order of square-root-T in the …
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Combinations of time series forecasts: when and why are they beneficial?.
… schedules, capacity control for fareclasses and overbooking limits. In a collaboration with Lufthansa Systems in Berlin, experiments in the thesis are conducted on an airline data set with the objective of improving the current net booking forecast by modifying one of its components, the …
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Applications of optimization in probability, finance and revenue management
… cancellations and no-shows by incorporating overbooking decisions in the underlying mathematical programming formulation.
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Appointment planning and scheduling in primary care
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) puts greater emphasis on disease prevention and better quality of care; as a result, primary care is becoming a vital component in the health care system. However, long waits for the next available appointments and delays in doctors offices combined with no-shows and …