Top-k queries are widely applied for retrieving a ranked set of the k most interesting objects based on the individual user preferences. As an example, in online marketplaces, cus...
Prepaid customers in mobile telecommunications are not bound by a contract and can therefore change operators (`churn') at their convenience and without notification. This mak...
Dejan Radosavljevik, Peter van der Putten, Kim Kyl...
The approach for predictive analysis focuses on a business strategy to streamline business-customer relationships in order to maximize client satisfaction and thereby improve cust...
We outline a method to model customer behavior from retail transaction data. In particular, we focus on the problem of recommending relevant products to consumers. Addressing this ...
We present the ColoredPower algorithm, which is designed to provide collaborative electricity demand shaping for residential and small-business customers. Demand shaping for this m...
The increasing demand for high-bandwidth applications such as video-on-demand and grid computing is reviving interest in bandwidth reservation schemes. Earlier attempts did not ca...
David Michael Turner, Vassilis Prevelakis, Angelos...
Abstract. Demand responsive transportation has the potential to provide efficient public door-to-door transport with a high quality. In currently implemented systems in the Netherl...
Ferdi Grootenboers, Mathijs de Weerdt, Mahdi Zarga...
This paper considers an on-line scheduling problem occurred in a service system with two classes (normal and special) of customers and two types (dedicated and flexible) of serve...
Consider a system (e.g. a computer farm or a call center) operating as a M/M/c queue, where c = 1, or 1 < c < ∞, or c = ∞. The system as a whole suffers disastrous break...