Although the importance of locating in manufacturing and service companies is not a new issue, one of significance applications is to determine the appropriate location for warehouses in manufacturing workshops warehouses to the maintenance of materials or products. In any organizations, Finding the suitable site for warehouses establishments to increase customer service and efficiency is one o...

In this note we describe some interesting parallels between circulating libraries in England circa 1750-1850 and video rental stores in the U.S. circa 1980-1990. Both institutions evolved in a similar manner, which suggests that common economic and social forces were at work. What happened in these two instances may happen yet again, and we think that the histories of these two industries may b...

The effect of local land use regulations on housing markets has been the subject of extensive research and discussion among both urban economists and policymakers. However, very few studies distinguish between the effects on owner-occupied and rental housing. Since most lowand moderate-income families are renters, the effects of regulation on the rental market will have important implications f...

This study examines the rent prices of the student housing apartment market surrounding the University of Oregon. The first key component of this study includes a Hedonic price model that helps evaluate what apartment complex amenities and characteristics are most important and influential in determining rental rates in the local community. Secondly, using the information from our Hedonic price...

This paper describes a research prototype system called RFCA for structuring Web-accessible rental classified advertisements based on semantic content. A hand crafted parser is used to extract various facets of the rental property being advertised including amongst others; number of room, type of garage, dwelling type (unit, house, or high rise apartment), price and contact details. The perform...

A important problem in many areas of complex information processing is to integrate heterogeneous information from different sources. For handwriting recognition we accomplished such an integration through an agent architecture of three co-operating agents. One agent represents the bottom-up knowledge as generated by a shape-based classifier of unistrokes. The second agent contains top-down (sy...

Consider the situation where we have some pre-trained classification models for bike rental stations (or any other spatially located data). Given a new rental station (deployment context), we imagine that there might be some rental stations that are more similar to this station in terms of the daily usage patterns, whether or not these stations are close by or not. We propose to use a Gaussian ...