Operational strategies for on-demand personal shopper services

Location Strategies for Personal Communications Services

Seshadri Mohan1 Bell Communications Research 20.

Multi-resource investment strategies: Operational hedging under demand uncertainty

Consider a ®rm that markets multiple products, each manufactured using several resources representing various types of capital and labor, and a linear production technology. The ®rm faces uncertain product demand and has the option to dynamically readjust its resource investment levels, thereby changing the capacities of its linear manufacturing process. The cost to adjust a resource level eith...

Intelligent Paging Strategies for Third Generation Personal Communication Services Networks

We consider the problem of minimizing the paging cost subject to the delay constraint in Personal Communication Services Network (PCSN). Here, we present two intelligent paging strategies for third generation PCSN. They are termed as sequential intelligent paging (SIP) and parallel-o-sequential intelligent paging (PSIP). Both are intelligent in the sense that cell(s) to be paged in a cycle are ...

SHOPPER: Interpreter for a High-level Web Services Language

The Wasabi Personal Shopper: A Case-Based Recommender System

The Wasabi Personal Shopper (WPS) is a domainindependent database browsing tool designed for on-line information access, particularly for electronic product catalogs. Typically, web-based catalogs rely either on text search or query formulation. WPS introduces an alternative form of access via preference-based navigation. WPS is based on a line of academic research called FindMe systems. These ...