Keyword: public service

Found 149 papers in total
Improving police control rooms using simulation
2008,
Police command and control centres are the main point of contact for the public who...
Profile-based push models in manpower planning
2008,
A methodology is presented to deal with heterogeneity due to observable variables in...
Developing staff schedules for a bilingual telecommunication call center with flexible workers
2008,
Call centers constitute growing and significant portions in national economies. This...
Application of hypercube model of queues to assess the decentralization of ambulances in an urban system of emergency medical care
2004,
One of the major concerns of urban emergency medical systems is to provide the fastest...
Vehicle routing and crew scheduling for metropolitan mail distribution at Australia Post
2006,
This paper presents a new multi-depot combined vehicle and crew scheduling algorithm,...
Hypercube queue model with multiple order and partial backup for systems analysis of emergency medical care in highways
2006,
The hypercube is a spatially distributed queuing model based on Markovian analysis...
A network in a society consists of individuals with utility depending on their reputation
2007,
In recent studies on network formation, it is assumed that a player directly receives...
Operations Research and public policy for Africa: harnessing the revolution in management science instruction
2008,
Operations Research (OR) has made major contributions in the developed world to public...
Quadratic ordered median location problems
2007,
The criteria used in location analysis have to be chosen according to the character of...
Analysis of facility location model with stable regions
2007,
In this paper, we analyze a facility location model in which a facility with shorter...
An endogenous growth model to explain the link between equality and growth
2007,
This paper designs an endogenous growth model to explain theoretically a recently...
Location problem for ambulances using multi-speed traffic network data
2006,
We consider location problems of ambulances. For the problems, we construct a traffic...
Considerations about the rankings of High Schools
2006,
The publication of rankings about high schools, started in 2001, had a significant...
Agency problems in law enforcement: theory and application to the U.S. Coast Guard
2005,
We study two issues in the enforcement of public law. The first is whether the system...
An integrated forecasting and regularization framework for light rail transit systems
2006,
In recent years, with half the world's population living in towns and cities and most...
Determination of the infrastructure needs for municipalities using an objective method
2007,
Nowadays, in Spain, the state of the infrastructure and equipment at different...
A geographic information systems supported Ant algorithm for the linear feature covering problem with distance constraints
2006,
This paper analyzes a linear feature covering problem (LFCP) with distance...
Improving emergency responsiveness with management science
2004,
While the goal of OR/MS is to aid decision makers, implementation of published models...
Risk allocation in the private provision of public infrastructure
2007,
Communities benefit most from the private provision of public infrastructure when...
Secondary user relations in emerging mobile computing environments
2006,
Mobile technologies are enabling access to information in diverse environments, and...
E-Learning in the work-places in the rural sector of northeastern Greece
2005,
Internet based applications and in particular e-learning ones have proved very...
Market for software vulnerabilities? Think again
2005,
Software vulnerability disclosure has become a critical area of concern for...
Concerns over the allocation methods employed in the US low-income home energy assistance program
2006,
The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is the largest federal energy...
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