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He** Lin
Business and Management
IT in Business
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Design Thinking as a Catalyst and Support for Sustainability Solutions
Despite often-heroic efforts from dedicated scientists, researchers, educators, policymakers, activists, and everyday citizens, sustainability issues impact communities across the globe, with achievable soluti...
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Exploring the Impact of Heuristic Attributes of Electronic Word of Mouth on Accommodation Sharing Platforms
With the rapid development of the sharing economy, accommodation sharing is a growing trend across the global. Consumers’ feelings, opinions, praises, and even criticisms regarding accommodations can be easily...
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Service Science and Sustainability
Service science is one of the interdisciplinary studies of service systems established in the early twenty-first century. It aims to tackle the value creation issues in complex systems with Service-Dominant Lo...
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Assessing the Performance of a Tourism MOOC Using the Kirkpatrick Model: A Supplier’s Point of View
This paper presents the evaluation methods and results of a pilot tourism MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) called eTourism: Communication Perspectives, based on the Kirkpatrick model. It assigned twelve indicato...
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Required Work and Scope of the Thesis
In the previous chapter, we discussed how CCR and NCCR problems are solved in transportation sectors according to the literature. Both are widely studied in the literature, but they are solved separately, rega...
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Computational Experiments for the MIP Models
In this section we begin by introducing a set of real-world instances from different German bus companies in Section 6.1; this is followed by a description of the solutions achieved with different solvers, nam...
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Web-Based Decision Support System for Crew Rostering
In this chapter, we begin with the reasons for the necessity of applying a web-based DSS for crew rostering in Section 8.1. In Section 8.2 we give a description of all of the functionalities of our web-based D...
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Introduction
The crew rostering problem is one of the main operational problems in public bus transit, and is being paid an increasing amount of attention in literature and in practice. There are several reasons for this. ...
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Crew Rostering: State of the Art
The purpose of this chapter is to review state-of-the-art models and solution approaches for solving cyclic and non-cyclic crew rostering problems, including sequential as well as integrated approaches for bot...
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Mathematical Programming and Optimal Crew Rostering
We first describe the network used for solving the crew rostering problem in Section 5.1. We have the same network design for the rota scheduling problem (a sub-problem of the crew rostering problem) as for th...
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Conclusion & Outlook
This thesis investigates the crew rostering problem in public bus transit. In previous chapters, we have studied this particular problem, various solution approaches, and a web-based decision support system. I...
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Worker-Centric Design for Software Crowdsourcing: Towards Cloud Careers
Crowdsourcing is emerging as a compelling technique for the cost-effective creation of software, with tools such as ODesk and TopCoder supporting large scale distributed development. From the point of view of ...
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Background
In this chapter, we describe the planning process of a public transport company (Section 2.1) and, especially, the crew rostering problem in Section 2.2. In Section 2.3 we discuss some well-known optimization ...
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Heuristics for Solving the Crew Rostering Problem
As shown in Chapter 6, some instances can not be solved optimally within 24 hours with solvers or are unsolvable due to a shortage of memory (especially with the integrated approach). Therefore, in this chapte...
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Influence Analysis of Female Executives on Firm Performance in the Listed Companies of China
The relationship of board female ratio and firm performance has become a hotspot in foreign researches and discussions, but there is no agreement until now. Based on this, our article studies the relationship ...
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Evaluation of Impact Factors on Reforming Military Research Institute of Technological Type
Military research institute of technological type focuses on product development, and the institute faces a series of opportunities and challenges when it transforms into enterprise. How to grasp the direction...
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A Novel Parallel Hardware Methodology for Solving Linear System of Equations
In this paper, we proposed a parallel hardware methodology employing the modified Gaussian elimination algorithm to efficiently solve linear system of equations (LSEs). Two parallel operators are issued in the...
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The Innovative Management of Mobile Phone Design
This study took three different class items for research, which were (1) Class I: the patent of iPhone which has been authorized by Apple; (2) Class II: The cell phones which have infringed on the design paten...
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Research on Engineering Variations Management of Urban Rail Transit Project in BT Mode – A Case of Shenzhen Metro Line 5
The financing way of projects in BT mode provides a feasible way for solving the contradiction problem of the municipal infrastructure construction funds. As the key risk factor of influencing BT project inves...
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Algorithm for Solving the Complicated Maximum Flow in Networks Based on the Interrelationship Tables
In this paper, we focused on the weighted networks system balance relationship between supply and demand to solve the network maximum flow problem under giant complicated environment. A heuristic solution meth...
