Dynamic Pricing of services has become the norm for many young service industries - especially in today’s volatile markets. Steffen Christ shows how theoretic optimization models can be operationalized by employing self-learning strategies to construct relevant input variables, such as latent...

The debate on the future of the aviation sector and the evolution of its traditional business practices is the core of this book. The new millennium began with terrorist attacks, epidemics, globalization, and the rise in oil prices which all combined to push the industry into a perfect storm....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for effective crisis response. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology involves a qualitative examination of responses by companies that have been judged by analysts to be varyingly effective. Toyota, for instance, had a...

Singapore Airlines (SIA) is consistently recognized as the world’s “best” airline. It is regularly voted “best business class”, “best cabin crew service”, “best in‐flight food”, “best for punctuality and safety”, “best for business travelers”, “best air cargo...

Static program analysis is a strong technique for analyzing program behavior, but suffers from scalability problem, such as path explosion which is caused by the presence of loops and function calls. This article applies the selective execution mechanism and heuristic strategy on exploring paths...