Consider a multiple booking class airline-seat inventory control problem that relates to either a single flight leg or to multiple flight legs. During the time before the flight, the airline may face the problems of (1) what are the suitable prices for the opened booking classes, and (2) when to close those opened booking classes. This work deals with these two problems by only using the pricin...

In this paper, we consider the classical multi-fare, single resource (leg) problem in revenue management for the case where demand information is limited. Our approach employs a competitive analysis, which guarantees a certain performance level under all possible demand scenarios. The only information required about the demand for each fare class is lower and upper bounds. We consider both comp...

With the rapid development of information technology in hotel booking context, it is no doubt that many hotels consequently enhance the needs of integrating information technologies into their overall business operations. In this study, we developed a research model which consists of perceived value, trust toward a third party online booking site, and trust toward hotels, and tested it by using...

Attended home delivery services face the challenge of providing narrow delivery time slots to ensure customer satisfaction, whilst keeping the significant delivery cost under control. To that end, the firm can try to influence customers when they are booking their delivery time slot so as to steer them towards choosing slots that are expected to result in cost-effective schedules. We estimate a...

BACKGROUND Immunity in pregnancy is physiologically compromised, and this may affect CD4 count levels. It is well-established that several factors affect CD4 count level in pregnancy. This study aimed to determine the mean and reference range of CD4 count in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive pregnant women in Lagos, Nigeria. METHODS A retrospective study was carried out at antenatal...

Many educational institutions acknowledged the importance of providing online-access to student laboratories. To optimize the use of the scarce and expensive resources such laboratories depend on, it is advisable to establish and setup a booking system that helps to administer access to them. This paper reports on the architecture and conceptual model of the rig booking system designed for the ...

INTRODUCTION In spite of the extreme importance of an early antenatal care visit, more than 50% of Zambian pregnant women book for antenatal care late. We aimed to determine factors associated with late antenatal care booking in Zambia. METHODS Data stem from the 2007 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey where information on socio-demographic, social-economic, obstetrical characteristics and ...

The unavailability of a dedicated website for the new Muscat International Airport has resulted in the unavailability of a web-based car park booking & management systems for the customers and a management information system for the staff of the new airport. A website including a car park booking & management systems and a staff web-portal management information system that are dedicated to the...