We study the effect of Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm on the racial disparity in the daily revenue earned by Airbnb … hosts. Our empirical strategy exploits Airbnb’s introduction of the algorithm and its voluntary adoption by hosts as a quasi …-natural experiment. Among those who adopted the algorithm, the average nightly rate decreased by 5.7%, but average daily revenue …

container terminal efficiency. Methods: In this paper, an approach combining a rule-based fuzzy logic algorithm with a rule …-based search algorithm is developed to solve the slot planning problem. The rules in the proposed fuzzy logic algorithm aim at … planning instances illustrate the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. Conclusions: The results show that …