Computational Science
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TRX integrated algorithms from its Travel Analytics operation with its Traveltrax data platform
to improve its air contract sourcing and performance monitoring services.
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Expense Vendors Focus On Receipts To Ease Reporting Pain
… apps allow users to take and upload pictures of receipts. Using optical character recognition, global position locators and algorithms , Abukai auto-fills expense line-item details. Customers can upload expense data files to existing expense or accounting …
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Directravel now offers CO2 tracking reports
… combining emissions from airlines, car rental and hotels. Provided monthly on client request, the reports "use proprietary algorithms from several carbon reporting companies" to estimate carbon output from travelers' trips, according to Directravel.
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BTN's Silver Anniversary: Buyers Eye 25 Years Of Business Travel And Beyond
… it, but there are enough nontraditional players with technology backgrounds and resources, and it requires artificial intelligence , too, to get it down to the transaction level. Somebody better do it. Somebody will. It's a matter of …
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Cornerstone Information Systems added five carbon emissions calculations to its iBank reporting tool
. The calculations cover airline flights, car rentals, hotel bookings and both car and rail alternatives to airline flights. Calculations are based on "the proprietary algorithms of several carbon reporting companies" that can be used for managing "unique customer demands."
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One-On-One: TSA Administrator Kip Hawley Preps His Final Initiatives (With Web-Only Excerpts)
… the U.S. and the EU. In about a year, which will then be about October 2009, by then we'll be in a position: The algorithms will be out there and the machines will be out there. Then, we'll have an opportunity to say, "Should we do this, should …
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Siemens Seeks Protection For Corporate Travel Data
… or who are working on huge commercial deals, if that data ends up in the wrong hands and with sophisticated software and algorithms , somebody can discern what's going on with a company by looking at their travel data, especially over time," Schoen …
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DOT's GDS Dereg. Plan To Open The Display Bias Door
… display alternative to those desiring it, but these possible new unbiased offerings will still be able to be manipulated by the algorithms within the legacy host systems. The interesting thing to consider is that few travel agents, let alone consumers, would …
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Op-Ed: Air Pricing: Change, Or More Of The Same?
… train services where available. The airlines have yield-managed their pricing models to death by developing complicated algorithms based on traditional business scenarios. The result is a model where the business customer pays the high end, the leisure …
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Datalex Enters Buyer Desktop Monitoring Tool Market
… pay you for.' The last view won the day." Boult said Eclipse's Dacoda product is "the only one that uses linear programming to optimize contracts. Datalex is crowding the field further, but we were doing this six years before anyone …
