This research examines the comparative characteristics of two tourism destinations based on quantitative analysis of the network of hyperlinks among their tourism operators’ websites. Methods and techniques of the “science of networks” are used to characterise and compare the static and dynamic characteristics of a tourism destinations webspace. Network metrics are proposed as quantitative asse...

The evolution of the internet over the past years has given destinations, suppliers of tourism services and intermediaries a wide range of new possibilities to get into contact with their customers. Destinations are at the heart of travel decisions but yet it is difficult for travelers to find quality information relating to destinations and even more for Destination Marketing Organizations (DM...

We study a problem in the area of multicast networks, called the Streaming Cache Placement Problem (SCPP). In the SCPP one wants to determine the minimum number of multicast routers needed to deliver content to a specified number of destinations, subject to predetermined link capacities. The SCPP is known to be NP-hard [1] and also MAX SNP hard [2]. We improve the approximation results for this...

We consider a downlink two-hop MISO broadcast network with a 2-antenna source communicating to 2 singleantenna destinations, assisted by 2 single-antenna intermediate relays. We investigate spectrally efficient transmission schemes and their achieved sum degrees of freedom (DoF), with quantized delayed channel state information (CSI) feedback. Assuming Grassmannian vector quantization, we study...

High bandwidth and low latency switches are commercially available. Using these switches, it has become a popular and cost-eeective way to interconnect workstations and processor clusters together as a parallel computing platform. The interconnection topology is usually irregular. On such systems, multicast is an important collective operation. Two steps are involved in a multicast: (1) the sou...

This chapter analyses how cultural heritage destinations should evolve to keep pace with changes in the demand for cultural tourism. The empirical evidence shows that the most important heritage destinations suffer from a misalignment of their value propositions with respect to the new needs of cultural tourists. These types of gaps can be filled only by understanding the features and evolution...

The limits of tourism development-the problem Despite many examples of inappropriate tourism development around the world, several destinations are still trapped by an almost inevitable vicious circle which destroys the very essence of tourism. Tourism is supposedly developed in order to improve the prosperity of local people at destinations, mainly through stimulating their local economy. Howe...

Initially I was concerned with offline two-dimensional bin packing with one-dimensional vehicle routing. The problem is defined by a set of items, each having a height, a width and a destination distance within (0,1]. The destinations are aligned on the same road, along with the depot (starting point) on one side. The goal is to pack items into vehicles of 1 × 1 loading space, drive the vehicle...