The impact of advance purchase deadlines on airline consumers’ search and purchase behaviors

Airlines frequently use advance purchase ticket deadlines to segment consumers. Few empirical studies have investigated how individuals respond to advance purchase deadlines and price uncertainties induced by these deadlines. We model the number of searches (and purchases) for specific search and departure dates using an instrumental variable approach that corrects for price endogeneity. Results show that search and purchase behaviors vary by search day of week, days from departure, lowest offered fares, variation in lowest offered fares across competitors, and market distance. After controlling for the presence of web bots, we find that the number of consumer searches increases just prior to an advance purchase deadline. This increase can be explained by consumers switching their desired departure dates by one or two days to avoid higher fares that occur immediately after an advance purchase deadline has passed. This reallocation of demand has significant practical implications for the airline industry because the majority of revenue management and scheduling decision support systems currently do not incorporate these behaviors.     

高校网站的优化与推广

随着网络技术的快速发展,网站成为获取、发布和传递信息的重要渠道。以高校网站为例,分析网站优化的解决方法,并研究网站推广方法,从而提升网站的访问量、扩大网站的宣传范围。     

海洋救助拖船救助功能与配置研究

海洋救助拖船是对海上遇险人员和船舶实施有效救助的专用船舶.为对接我国海洋战略发展需求,要适应在深远海大风浪恶劣海况条件下对海上遇险人员和船舶的有效救助.针对海洋救助拖船适应深远海救助需求的基本功能设置,就船舶救助和人命救生的拖曳救助作业、对外消防灭火、海面人命救生、海面搜救、获救人员救治及保障等主要设备及设施配置作技术探讨.     

Sequencing mixed-model flexible assembly lines with variable launching intervals

To solve the sequencing problem in mixed-model flexible assembly lines (MMFALs) with variable launching intervals, a mathematical model aiming to minimize the cost of utility and idle times is developed. To obtain high-quality sequences, an advanced scatter search (ASS) algorithm is proposed. A heuristic approach, i.e. launching intervals between products algorithm (LIBPA), is incorporated into the ASS algorithm to solve the launching interval problem for each sequence. Numerical experiments with different scales are conducted to compare the performance of ASS with genetic algorithm (GA). In addition, we compare the cost of variable launching intervals approach with fixed launching intervals approach. The results indicate that the ASS is efficient and effective, and considering variable launching intervals in mixed-model assembly lines (MMALs) sequencing problem can improve the performance of the line.     

汽车实训基地教学模式的改革与实践

文中根据职业教育的特点,探索和建设符合我国实际的汽车运用技术专业职业教育标准,利用汽车实训基地进行教学模式改革,不断提高高职教学质量,满足社会对职业人才培养为主要目的的教学模式的要求。     

舰船电力网络拓扑分析新方法

针对传统舰船电网拓扑分析方法存在的针对性不强,效率不高,运算量随网络规模增大而显著增加的缺点,本文提出基于面向对象技术的舰船电力系统拓扑跟踪新方法,实现了不同类型的支路状态变化后的局部电网结构的快速跟踪.算例分析证明了本算法的有效性,表明本算法较传统算法效率更高.     

基于Web挖掘的站内搜索优化设计

随着网上信息的急剧膨胀,如何让用户快速、高效地检索出所需信息显得极其重要。文章介绍了一种基于向量空间模型的站内搜索优化设计方案,实现了对网站搜索系统的优化设计。     

集装箱船舶贝内配载和堆场装船顺序协调优化

针对集装箱船舶贝内配载和堆场装船顺序协调优化问题，以堆场贝位和船舶贝位翻箱次数之和最小为优化目标，考虑堆场装船要求和船舶适航性等多种约束条件，建立数学模型. 鉴于问题的NP特性，提出混合演化策略算法(HES)求解模型，设计二维实数编码，提出基于力矩平衡和逐列装载的解码方法. 基于三点交叉互换的重组算子，单点突变的变异算子和互换的局部搜索策略对算法进行改进. 通过计算证明，对不同规模算例，HES算法均能求解出较优的贝内配载方案和堆场装船顺序.HES 算法与传统演化策略算法(ES)、粒子群算法 (PSO)、基于规则的启发式算法(HA-MBSCC)进行对比，进一步验证了算法的优越性.     

几种启发式集装箱优化配装方法的比较

集装箱配装是个多约束的复杂组合优化问题 ,属于NP -Hard问题 ,其求解是很困难的 ,所以实际应用中一般多用启发式方法来解。分析和比较了几种启发式集装箱配装的特点 ,并对未来的研究发展趋势做出了预测。     

基于高速收费数据的路径速度还原与流量推断

基于收费数据的高速公路研究逐渐增多。本文利用收费数据对高速公路车流量进行推断。使用广度优先搜索算法对车辆进行路径还原,然后对车辆的运行状态进行了细化,对车辆平均速度的计算方法进行了优化。依据车辆行驶状态计算时间与速度,推算出车辆在不同时间段内的位置信息,进而推断出不同时段各路段的流量。与优化前的结果进行对比,发现了误差的不确定性。