Journal: Operations Research

Found 2096 papers in total
A Make-to-Stock System with Multiple Customer Classes and Batch Ordering
A Make-to-Stock System with Multiple Customer Classes and Batch Ordering
2008,
This paper examines the impact of customer order sizes on a make–to–stock...
Personal Decisions Are the Leading Cause of Death
Personal Decisions Are the Leading Cause of Death
2008,
This paper analyzes the relationships between personal decisions and premature deaths...
An Analysis of Pediatric Vaccine Formulary Selection Problems
An Analysis of Pediatric Vaccine Formulary Selection Problems
2008,
Vaccination against infectious disease is hailed as one of the great achievements in...
Controlling Co-Epidemics: Analysis of HIV and Tuberculosis Infection Dynamics
Controlling Co-Epidemics: Analysis of HIV and Tuberculosis Infection Dynamics
2008,
A co–epidemic arises when the spread of one infectious disease stimulates the...
Algorithmic Prediction of Health-Care Costs
Algorithmic Prediction of Health-Care Costs
2008,
The rising cost of health care is one of the world's most important problems....
Estimating the Patient's Price of Privacy in Liver Transplantation
Estimating the Patient's Price of Privacy in Liver Transplantation
2008,
In the United States, patients with end–stage liver disease must join a waiting...
Assessing Dynamic Breast Cancer Screening Policies
Assessing Dynamic Breast Cancer Screening Policies
2008,
Questions regarding the relative value and frequency of mammography screening for...
Optimal Initiation and Management of Dialysis Therapy
Optimal Initiation and Management of Dialysis Therapy
2008,
Dialysis is the most common therapy for patients afflicted with chronic kidney...
Novel Optimization Models for Abnormal Brain Activity Classification
Novel Optimization Models for Abnormal Brain Activity Classification
2008,
This paper proposes a new classification technique, called support feature machine...
Robust Management of Motion Uncertainty in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy
Robust Management of Motion Uncertainty in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy
2008,
Radiation therapy is subject to uncertainties that need to be accounted for when...
A Dynamic Simulator for the Management of Disorders of the Body Water Homeostasis
A Dynamic Simulator for the Management of Disorders of the Body Water Homeostasis
2008,
A dynamic model is built to study the water regulation of human body and related...
Supply Chain Coordination and Influenza Vaccination
Supply Chain Coordination and Influenza Vaccination
2008,
Annual influenza outbreaks incur great expenses in both human and monetary terms, and...
Dynamic Multipriority Patient Scheduling for a Diagnostic Resource
Dynamic Multipriority Patient Scheduling for a Diagnostic Resource
2008,
We present a method to dynamically schedule patients with different priorities to a...
Reducing Delays for Medical Appointments: A Queueing Approach
Reducing Delays for Medical Appointments: A Queueing Approach
2008,
Many primary care offices and other medical practices regularly experience long...
Milestone Payments or Royalties? Contract Design for R&D Licensing
Milestone Payments or Royalties? Contract Design for R&D Licensing
2008,
We study how innovators can optimally design licensing contracts when there is...
Resolution branch and bound and an application: the maximum weighted stable set problem
Resolution branch and bound and an application: the maximum weighted stable set problem
2007,
We propose a new resolution algorithm, called resolution branch and bound (RBB), where...
Optimal expected rank in a two-sided secretary problem
Optimal expected rank in a two-sided secretary problem
2007,
In a two-sided version of the famous secretary problem, employers search for a...
The undirected m-peripatetic salesman problem: polyhedral results and new algorithms
The undirected m-peripatetic salesman problem: polyhedral results and new algorithms
2007,
In the m-peripatetic salesman problem (m-PSP), the aim is to determine m edge disjoint...
Minimizing the worst slowdown: offline, online
Minimizing the worst slowdown: offline, online
2007,
We look for protocols (service disciplines) setting an upper bound on the slowdown...
Serial supply chains with economies of scale: bounds and approximations
Serial supply chains with economies of scale: bounds and approximations
2007,
We consider two models of stochastic serial inventory systems with economies of scale...
Using equilibrium programs with equilibrium constraints to Model Bilevel Games in Restructured Electricity Markets with Locational Prices
Using equilibrium programs with equilibrium constraints to Model Bilevel Games in Restructured Electricity Markets with Locational Prices
2007,
We study a bilevel noncooperative game-theoretic model of restructured electricity...
Balancing terrorism and natural disasters – Defensive strategy with endogenous attacker effort
Balancing terrorism and natural disasters – Defensive strategy with endogenous attacker effort
2007,
In this paper, we apply game theory to identify equilibrium strategies for both...
Performance prediction and preselection for optimization and heuristic solution procedures
Performance prediction and preselection for optimization and heuristic solution procedures
2007,
The operations research literature contains numerous studies on the design and...
Two-moment approximations for maxima
Two-moment approximations for maxima
2007,
We introduce and investigate approximations for the probability distribution of the...
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