How technology is successfully transforming travel to better serve the ever–connected digital consumer

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 675-678 ◽  
Author(s):  
António Loureiro
Keyword(s):  
Distribution System ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Business Travel ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Travel Industry ◽  
Business To Business ◽  
Official Information ◽  
Programming Interface

Purpose This paper aims to explain how Travelport has responded to the trends and challenges of the travel industry. The travel platform by Travelport facilitates travel commerce by connecting the world’s leading travel providers with online and offline travel buyers in a proprietary business-to-business travel marketplace. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on information drawn from official information sources and relevant data from Travelport. Findings The key technology in play is the application programming interface (API). Driving travel performance is at the heart of Travelport’s mission, and the mobile-centric API encompasses the speed of search, relevancy of response and accuracy of data. Originality/value This paper presents the perspective of a global distribution system (GDS) operator regarding trends and challenges affecting the travel industry and the transformation of traditional GDS to travel commerce platforms.

Redefining travel commerce: the Travelport perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 699-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
António Loureiro
Keyword(s):  
Distribution System ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Business Travel ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Travel Industry ◽  
Corporate Travel ◽  
Business To Business ◽  
Official Information

Purpose This paper aims to explain how Travelport has responded to the trends and challenges of the travel industry by building a travel commerce platform. The platform facilitates travel commerce by connecting the world’s leading travel providers with online and offline travel buyers in a proprietary business-to-business travel marketplace. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on information drawn from official information sources and relevant data from Travelport. Findings Travelport’s investments in unique airline merchandising capabilities, diverse hotel and car portfolio, innovative mobile and corporate travel technology and a pioneering payments solution positions it to service the world’s rapidly growing demand. Innovative technology enables access to branded fares and ancillary products from hundreds of different airlines, hotel properties, car rental products and much more. Originality/value This paper presents the perspective of a global distribution system (GDS) operator regarding trends and challenges affecting the travel industry and the transformation of traditional GDS to travel commerce platforms.

KULOCS: unified locating service for efficient development of location-based applications

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-172
Author(s):  
Hiroki Takatsuka ◽  
Seiki Tokunaga ◽  
Sachio Saiki ◽  
Shinsuke Matsumoto ◽  
Masahide Nakamura
Keyword(s):  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Location Information ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Practical Feasibility ◽  
Programming Interface ◽  
Outdoor Location ◽  
Indoor And Outdoor

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a facade for seamlessly using locating services and enabling easy development of an application with indoor and outdoor location information without being aware of the difference of individual services. To achieve this purpose, in this paper, a unified locating service, called KULOCS (Kobe-University Unified LOCating Service), which horizontally integrates the heterogeneous locating services, is proposed. Design/methodology/approach By focusing on technology-independent elements [when], [where] and [who] in location queries, KULOCS integrates data and operations of the existing locating services. In the data integration, a method where the time representation, the locations and the namespace are consolidated by the Unix time, the location labels and the alias table, respectively, is proposed. Based on the possible combinations of the three elements, an application-neutral application programming interface (API) for the operation integration is derived. Findings Using KULOCS, various practical services are enabled. In addition, the experimental evaluation shows the practical feasibility by comparing cases with or without KULOCS. The result shows that KULOCS reduces the effort of application development, especially when the number of locating services becomes large. Originality/value KULOCS works as a seamless facade with the underlying locating services, the users and applications consume location information easily and efficiently, without knowing concrete services actually locating target objects.

Sistem Pengawasan Aktifitas Penggunaan Smartphone Android

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-31
Author(s):  
Rudianto Rudianto ◽  
Eko Budi Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Image Content ◽  
Image File ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Index Terms ◽  
Programming Interface

Availability the Application Programming Interface (API) for third-party applications on Android devices provides an opportunity to monitor Android devices with each other. This is used to create an application that can facilitate parents in child supervision through Android devices owned. In this study, some features added to the classification of image content on Android devices related to negative content. In this case, researchers using Clarifai API. The result of this research is to produce a system which has feature, give a report of image file contained in target smartphone and can do deletion on the image file, receive browser history report and can directly visit in the application, receive a report of child location and can be directly contacted via this application. This application works well on the Android Lollipop (API Level 22). Index Terms— Application Programming Interface(API), Monitoring, Negative Content, Children, Parent.

scholarly journals Advanced soft robot modeling in ChainQueen

Robotica ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Andrew Spielberg ◽  
Tao Du ◽  
Yuanming Hu ◽  
Daniela Rus ◽  
Wojciech Matusik
Keyword(s):  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Material Point ◽  
Soft Robotics ◽  
Soft Robot ◽  
Inference Control ◽  
Simulation And Optimization ◽  
Efficient Simulation ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Robot Modeling ◽  
Programming Interface

Abstract We present extensions to ChainQueen, an open source, fully differentiable material point method simulator for soft robotics. Previous work established ChainQueen as a powerful tool for inference, control, and co-design for soft robotics. We detail enhancements to ChainQueen, allowing for more efficient simulation and optimization and expressive co-optimization over material properties and geometric parameters. We package our simulator extensions in an easy-to-use, modular application programming interface (API) with predefined observation models, controllers, actuators, optimizers, and geometric processing tools, making it simple to prototype complex experiments in 50 lines or fewer. We demonstrate the power of our simulator extensions in over nine simulated experiments.

A Layered Mapping of Ada 202X to OpenMP

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-58
Author(s):  
S. Tucker Taft
Keyword(s):  
Operating System ◽  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Light Weight ◽  
Main Interest ◽  
Thread Scheduling ◽  
Environment Variables ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Parallel Loops ◽  
Programming Interface

The OpenMP specification defines a set of compiler directives, library routines, and environment variables that together represent the OpenMP Application Programming Interface, and is currently defined for C, C++, and Fortran. The forthcoming version of Ada, currently dubbed Ada 202X, includes lightweight parallelism features, in particular parallel blocks and parallel loops. All versions of Ada, since its inception in 1983, have included "tasking," which corresponds to what are traditionally considered "heavyweight" parallelism features, or simply "concurrency" features. Ada "tasks" typically map to what are called "kernel threads," in that the operating system manages them and schedules them. However, one of the goals of lightweight parallelism is to reduce overhead by doing more of the management outside the kernel of the operating system, using a light-weight-thread (LWT) scheduler. The OpenMP library routines support both levels of threading, but for Ada 202X, the main interest is in making use of OpenMP for its lightweight thread scheduling capabilities.

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