Expected Future Value Decomposition Based Bid Price Generation for Large-Scale Network Revenue Management

This paper studies a multi-stage stochastic programming model for large-scale network revenue management. We solve the model by means of the so-called Expected Future Value (EFV) decomposition via scenario analysis, estimating the impact of the decisions made at a given stage on the objective function value related to the future stages. The EFV curves are … Read more

Passenger Name Record Data Mining Based Cancellation Forecasting for Revenue Management

Revenue management (RM) enhances the revenues of a company by means of demand-management decisions. An RM system must take into account the possibility that a booking may be canceled, or that a booked customer may fail to show up at the time of service (no-show). We review the Passenger Name Record data mining based cancellation … Read more

Multi-group Support Vector Machines with measurement costs: a biobjective approach

Support Vector Machine has shown to have good performance in many practical classification settings. In this paper we propose, for multi-group classification, a biobjective optimization model in which we consider not only the generalization ability (modelled through the margin maximization), but also costs associated with the features. This cost is not limited to an economical … Read more

Detecting relevant variables and interactions for classification in Support Vector Machines

The widely used Support Vector Machine (SVM) method has shown to yield good results in Supervised Classification problems. The Binarized SVM (BSVM) is a variant which is able to automatically detect which variables are, by themselves, most relevant for the classifier. In this work, we extend the BSVM introduced by the authors to a method … Read more

A Column Generation Approach for Support Vector Machines

The widely used Support Vector Machine (SVM) method has shown to yield good results in Supervised Classification problems. Other methods such as Classification Trees have become more popular among practitioners than SVM thanks to their interpretability, which is an important issue in Data Mining. In this work, we propose an SVM-based method that automatically detects … Read more