Agricultural machinery rental is a new service form that uses big data in agriculture to improve the utilization rate of agricultural and promote development economy. To realize scheduling optimization cloud services, dynamic artificial bee-ant colony algorithm (DABAA) proposed solve above problem. First, practicability mathematical model production, coefficient proposed. Then mutation operatio...

We consider one-way vehicle sharing systems where customers can pick a car at one station and drop it off at another (e.g., Zipcar, Car2Go). We aim to optimize the distribution of cars, and quality of service, by pricing rentals appropriately. However, with highly uncertain demands and other uncertain parameters (e.g., pick-up and drop-off location, time, duration), pricing each individual rent...

Discusses and analyses the latest generation of information kiosks, Kiosks 21, which features information provision/promotion, interaction, transaction and relationships. In contrast to their task based predecessors, these kiosks focus on customer service delivery to ̳customers in context‘. Five case studies of such kiosks located respectively in an airport, railway station, car rental base, ho...

In the Multislope Ski Rental problem, the user needs a certain resource for some unknown period of time. To use the resource, the user must subscribe to one of several options, each of which consists of a one-time setup cost (“buying price”), and cost proportional to the duration of the usage (“rental rate”). The larger the price, the smaller the rent. The actual usage time is determined by an ...

The ability of hospital-based car seat rental programs to provide car seats inexpensively throughout an entire state and the effect of these rental programs on car seat usage by newborns were evaluated. In July 1979 individuals and groups committed to child passenger safety formed a coalition called Vermont SEAT (Seatbelts Eliminate Automobile Tragedies). During the next 3 years SEAT asked the ...

Services are by nature co-created. They are produced and consumed simultaneously through interactions between customers and service providers. The professional design of services is also highly associated with co-creation, which is evident in the sparse service design literature. This paper reveals what designers say they do to involve different stakeholders in the process of prototyping servic...

The integration of marketing and demand with logistics and inventories (supply side of companies) may cause multiple improvements; it can revolutionize the management of the revenue of rental companies, hotels, and airlines. In this paper, we develop a multi-objective pricing-inventory model for a retailer. Maximizing the retailer's profit and the service level are the objectives, and shorta...

One goal of the U.S. housing voucher program, as an alternative to public housing subsidies, is to help participants gain access to decent neighborhoods. I find that in a typical implementation of the program, participants in the housing voucher program live in better neighborhoods than public housing residents, but in lower-quality neighborhoods compared to unsubsidized households eligible for...

The Rental Fleet Scheduling Problem (RFSP) arises in vehicle rental operations that offer a wide variety of vehicle types to customers, and allow a rented vehicle to “migrate” to a setdown depot other than the pickup depot. When there is a shortage of vehicles of a particular type at a depot, vehicles may be relocated to that depot, or vehicles of similar types may be substituted. The RFSP invo...

This research investigates whether or not employee engagement has an impact on upselling effectiveness in the car rental service industry, where upselling is a key performance metric for customer development. Our empirical strategy employs a series of simple empirical tests based on measures of engagement constructed using various sub-groups of employees and questions. The main results demonstr...