A good demand forecast should be at the heart of every Revenue Management model. Yet most demand models do not incorporate customer choice behavior under offered alternatives. We are using the ideas of customer choice sets to model the customer's buying behavior. The demand estimation method, as...

In this study, we analyze a task scheduling problem with small time windows and care workers with different levels of qualification in a nursing home. A set of care tasks has to be assigned to a given number of care workers, so that the total earliness and tardiness from the nursing home...

Many forecasting methods perform poorly in the case of intermittent demand patterns and high variances in the demand quantity. Strong fluctuations within the time series and a large proportion of zero observations complicate the extraction of trend and seasonality. This research investigates how...