In many theme parks, stores are located within major attractions to sell related merchandise. Sales at such stores form a significant portion of theme park profits. Typically, store sales depend upon visitor flows through the attraction, customer satisfaction with the attraction, and the merchandise at the store. In addition, such stores constitute a unique retail environment, as visitor flows ...

In this paper we investigate the issue of resource matching between jobs and machines in Intel’s compute farm. We show that common heuristics such as Best-Fit and Worse-Fit may fail to properly utilize the available resources when applied to either cores or memory in isolation. In an attempt to overcome the problem we propose Mix-Fit, a heuristic which attempts to balance usage between resource...

This study investigated how a job seeker self-presentation affects recruiter’s hiring recommendations in an online communities and what categories of self-presentation contribute to fit perceptions for obtaining hiring recommendations. The study participants viewed potential candidates’ LinkedIn profiles and responded to questions regarding the argument quality and source credibility of their s...

W. J. Eckert [1] has adapted Cowell's method of numerical integration to the determination of orbits on punched card machines. Eckert, Brouwer, and Clémence [2] have used Cowell's method on a large-scale computer. We shall assume that Cowell's method as modified by Eckert is the method of numerical integration best suited for the determination of orbits on large-scale computers. What we are con...

In this paper, we present the participation of the University of Amsterdam’s ExPoSe team in the TREC 2016 Contextual Suggestion Track. The main goal of contextual suggestion track is to evaluate methods for providing suggestions for activities or points of interest to users in a specific location, at a specific time, taking their personal preferences into consideration. One of the key steps of ...

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Jurit Baru Village is a village located in Pringgasela District, East Lombok Regency, which has potential natural resources to be used as tourist attractions and been designated since 2021. Tourism not managed optimally. This due the lack of promotion carried out by local community. The purpose activity promote tourism on social media through accounts (youtube) @desawisata_juritbaru (instagram)...

Despite the economic significance of the theme park industry and the huge investments needed to set up new attractions, no marketing models exist to guide these investment decisions. This study addresses this gap in the literature by estimating a response model for theme park attendance. The model not only determines the contribution of each attraction to attendance, but also how this contribut...