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Found 17049 papers in total
Optimization of community health center locations and service offerings with statistical need estimation
2008,
Community Health Centers (CHCs) provide family-oriented healthcare services for people...
New patient-centered models of quality-of-life measures for evaluation of interventions for multi-stage diseases
2008,
This paper focuses on the development of quantitative dynamic models for measuring the...
A modeling framework for replacing medical therapies
2008,
A common application of Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) is to determine when to...
Modeling hospital discharge policies for patients with pneumonia-related sepsis
2008,
Sepsis, the tenth-leading cause of death in the United States, accounts for more than...
Column generation approach to operating theater planning with elective and emergency patients
2008,
The elective surgery planning problem for operating rooms shared between elective and...
A stochastic overbooking model for outpatient clinical scheduling with no-shows
2008,
In this paper a stochastic overbooking model is formulated and an appointment...
Appointment scheduling in health care: Challenges and opportunities
2008,
Appointment scheduling systems are used by primary and specialty care clinics to...
A heuristic algorithm for the two-hoist cyclic scheduling problem with overlapping hoist coverage ranges
2008,
The problem of scheduling material-handling hoists in automated electroplating lines...
Analysis of the (s, S) policy for perishables with a random shelf life
2008,
A continuous review perishable inventory system operating under the (s,S) policy is...
Scheduling parallel assembly workstations to minimize a shared pool of labor
2008,
The problem of scheduling jobs on several identical parallel assembly workstations...
Dynamic procurement in a capacitated supply chain facing uncertain demand
2008,
In an environment where a buyer procures capacity from a capacitated supplier through...
Integrated warehouse location and inventory decisions in a three-tier distribution system
2008,
A three-tier distribution network which consists of a single supplier at a given...
Reactive capacity and inventory competition under demand substitution
2008,
An important component of any accurate response program is the creation of extra...
Forecasting service parts demand for a discontinued product
2008,
Stochastic demand forecasting methods for service parts of a discontinued product are...
Sensor-driven prognostic models for equipment replacement and spare parts inventory
2008,
Accurate predictions of equipment failure times are necessary to improve replacement...
Multi-objective scheduling problems: Determination of pruned Pareto sets
2008,
There are often multiple competing objectives for industrial scheduling and production...
Variance reduction techniques: Experimental comparison and analysis for single systems
2008,
We provide a thorough analysis of the effectiveness of different Variance Reduction...
A statistical computer experiments approach to airline fleet assignment
2008,
The fleet assignment model allocates a fleet of aircraft to scheduled flight legs in...
A robust optimization approach for the capacitated vehicle routing problem with demand uncertainty
2008,
In this paper we introduce a robust optimization approach to solve the Vehicle Routing...
An exact algorithm for a workforce allocation problem with application to an analysis of cross-training policies
2008,
The evaluation of workforce staffing and scheduling policies is of paramount...
An improved approximation algorithm for the two-machine open shop scheduling problem with family setup times
2008,
We consider the problem of scheduling families of jobs in a two-machine open shop so...
The route expropriation problem
2008,
This paper considers the problem of selecting obnoxious routes (e.g., routes used to...
Incorporating a delay mechanism in ordering policies into multi-echelon distribution systems
2008,
In this paper, we devise a framework for obtaining the optimal ordering policy in a...
Periodic-review inventory systems with random yield and demand: Bounds and heuristics
2008,
We revisit the infinite-horizon decision problem of a single-stage single-item...
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