The Optimal Airline Overbooking Strategy under Uncertainties

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3213, Issue , 2004, Pages 937-945

  Chiu, Chaochang ^a   Tsao, Chanhsi ^a  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; COMMERCE; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

MARKET DEMAND; META-HEURISTIC SEARCH; PRICING STRATEGY; SYSTEM SIMULATIONS; YIELD MANAGEMENT;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 35048834730     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30132-5_126     Document Type: Article

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