Country: Netherlands

Found 18376 papers in total
Contract design for primary care physicians: Physician location and practice behaviour in small communities
2000,
Most western countries employ a combination of fee-for-service, fixed salary and per...
Risk adjustment of capitation payments to behavioral health care carve-outs: How well do existing methodologies account for psychiatric disability?
2000,
This study used 1994–1995 administrative data from a large public employer to...
Operational research in practice: Consultancy in industry revisited
2000,
Experiences of an OR group in a large industrial organisation, from 1981 to the middle...
The feeder rack assignment problem in printed circuit board assembly: A case study
2000,
In this paper we describe a case study in the operational planning of the assembly of...
Potential effect of internal markets on hospitals' waiting time
2000,
The paper examines by means of a queuing model how an internal market can contribute...
Measuring technical efficiency
2000,
The theoretical consideration of technical efficiency has existed since Koopmans...
Optimization algorithms of operative control in water distribution systems
1997,
This paper discusses a multilevel algorithm for finding optimal control in a static...
Analytic hierarchy process-based evaluation of analytic hierarchy process software
1999,
The software support can reduce barriers of application of multiple criteria...
A new generic model for applying multiple-attribute utility theory
1999,
A new model for preferences is introduced that weakens the notion of preferential...
Learning to improve reliability during system development
1999,
Research, conducted in collaboration with a leading aerospace manufacturer, aimed to...
A logarithmic-quadratic proximal method for variational inequalities
1999,
We present a new method for solving variational inequalities on polyhedra. The method...
On a primal–dual analytic center cutting plane method for variational inequalities
1999,
We present an algorithm for variational inequalities VI( F , Y ) that uses a...
Airline crew scheduling using Potts mean field techniques
2000,
A novel method is presented and explored within the framework of Potts neural networks...
Exploiting sparsity in the direct transcription method for optimal control
1999,
In the direct transcription method an approximation to an optimal control problem is...
Work-force management in automated assembly systems
2000,
While issues like off-line short-term scheduling, sequencing, real-time control and...
Selecting the best choice in the full information group interview problem
1999,
We consider the problem of selecting the single best choice when several groups of...
A quality control approach to consistency paradoxes in the analytic hierarchy process
1999,
The Analytic Hierarchy Process requires a specific consistency check of the pairwise...
A response to dynamic change in the market place
1997,
Companies can no longer capture market share and gain higher profits by producing...
Circuit diagnosis support system for electronics assembly operations
1999,
Diagnosis and repair operations are often major bottlenecks in electronics circuit...
Lead times, order release mechanisms, and customer service
2000,
Lead times play a crucial role in manufacturing performance. They affect...
The Kanban assignment problem – a non-integral approach
2000,
Most production control systems have one thing in common: they are based on a quantity...
Task oriented weighting in multi-criteria analysis
1999,
This paper presents a novel approach to certia weighting, which often plays a crucial...
A combined cutting-stock and lot-sizing problem
2000,
A combined cutting-stock and lot-sizing problem with a joint setup cost is formulated...
Experimental evaluation of a graphical display system to visualizing multiple criteria solutions
1999,
One of the major limitations of multiple criteria techniques is the poor set of...
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