Demand-driven scheduling of movies in a multiplex

International Journal of Research in Marketing

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 75-88

  Eliashberg, Jehoshua ^a   Hegie, Quintus ^b   Ho, Jason ^c   Huisman, Dennis ^b   Miller, Steven J ^d   Swami, Sanjeev ^e   Weinberg, Charles B ^f   Wierenga, Berend ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^e Faculty of Science   (India)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^g ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Column generation; Demand forecasting; Integer programming; Movie modeling; Optimization of movie schedules

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349247856     PISSN: 01678116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijresmar.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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