Revenue Management with Flexible Products: Models and Methods for the Broadcasting Industry (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 596)

Remarkable features of revenue management (RM) problems in the cargo, manufacturing and broadcasting industries are so-called flexible products. "Flexibility" means that the actual mode of production is not defined at the time of purchase, but can be chosen later on by the service provider. This book is among the first to analyze RM problems with flexible products and RM in broadcasting companies. The implications of flexibility are explicitly taken into account in the models and methods presented. As an aside, the book contains descriptions of algorithms to generate stochastic demand data streams for general RM problems. An implementation as a Microsoft Windows executable file is available, which can directly be used both by theoreticians and practitioners in their own simulation studies. This book will be of great value for researchers, managers and students interested in RM with flexible products in general and broadcasting companies in particular. Many questions related to stem cell properties and neural stem cell lineage and differentiation still linger. This second edition revises and expands upon the successful first edition in order to provide the most current, cutting-edge methods of today for the scientists working to answer these questions. The use of these step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols will allow investigators to produce pure populations that can serve as a means of understanding the biology of neural stem cells and adapting them for transplantation into disease models. This is an excellent source of information and inspiration. ""Flexibility" means that the actual mode of production is not defined at the time of purchase, but can be chosen later on by the service provider. This book is among the first to analyze revenue management (RM) problems with flexible products and RM in broadcasting companies. The implications of flexibility are explicitly taken into account in the models and methods presented."--BOOK JACKET cover-image-large 1 front-matter 2 fulltext_001 18 fulltext_002 47 fulltext_003 107 fulltext_004 136 fulltext_005 144 fulltext_006 177 fulltext_007 259 back-matter 262