Transit services are currently facing several challenges in the United States and around the world. For many reasons, among which the fluctuations in gas prices and the state of the economy are the major ones, transit demand has noticed a considerable increase. The challenge that transit agencies are facing is to make these increases permanent by maintaining transit’s competitive edge over the ...

This paper 1 describes a system that facilitates a competitive environment for parallel applications on heterogeneous workstation clusters. The system tries to maximize the speedup of the parallel applications and, at the same time, to allocate workstations ef-ciently and fairly to the applications. It tackles the resource allocation problem in regard to heterogeneity between the workstations a...

Ecological psychology teaches us that intelligence exists in an environment. We explore the combination of competitive evolution, and an interactive environment. A population of network controller weights are evolved, and robots using those weights compete in a hockey-like game. The behavior produced is neither as consistent nor as complex as hoped for, and a variety of causes, and potential re...

In this paper, we study the practice of overselling in a competitive environment where late arriving consumers value the good higher than early arriving ones but the former’s arrival is uncertain. We show that overselling is a dominant strategy for the firms. However, it can lead to a prisoners’ dilemma situation in which all firms are worse off overselling. We further show that only when deman...

The Industrial Internet of Things is irreversibly transforming the economy. New strategic opportunities derived from high-speed streams Big Data are changing boundaries industries, creating for new decisions, including in marketing. use technologies marketing interest. continuous interaction devices and programs connected to controlled by their own intelligent systems gives system ability autom...

The article is dedicated to investigating existing competitive environment in the Azerbaijani leasing market, analyzing criteria and indicators characterizing it, identifying ways which company's marketing policy will be enhanced, disclosing directions for formation of a country's market. For this purpose, author has examined major aspects theoretical competition article, highlighting advantage...