Gaze is an effective function of a conversation. Different functions of gaze are described in literature over the world. During a route description the presence of gaze is also clearly visible. The behavior of gaze however seems different then in a normal conversation. Through a literature study and the analysis of route description movies, some clear observations are visible. The gaze behavior...

After reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels as a child, I had a difficult time leaving Middle Earth behind. There were so many plotlines and characters left unexplored that I began to write new stories using the characters and settings from Tolkien’s universe. At the time I was unaware that there were many children and adults across the United States who were enthusiastically producing similar works ...

T paper studies the problem of purchasing and allocating copies of movies to multiple stores of a movie rental chain. A unique characteristic of this problem is the return process of rented movies. We formulate this problem for new movies as a newsvendor-like problem with multiple rental opportunities for each copy. We provide demand and return forecasts at the store-day level based on comparab...