Found 97029 papers in total
On the hazards of relying on mathematical models: Three cases from Federal policy analysis
1991,
Three examples from U.S. Federal policy analysis illustrate the absurdities which can arise when analysts...
The growth of information systems technology in the public sector of developing nations
1991,
Information systems technology in the public sectors of developing nations is in the first, tentative...
Queueing models for out-patient appointment systems-A case study
1991,
Some recent research on queueing models is successfully applied to the problem of designing an appropriate...
Simulating health expenditures under alternative insurance plans
1991,
A simulation model that estimates individual health care spending as a function of the structure of...
The simulation net approach to modelling and simulation
1991,
This paper describes an application of the use of simulation nets to modelling. The example used is of a...
Staffing a centralized appointment scheduling department in Lourdes Hospital
1991,
Lourdes Hospital uses a centralized system to schedule appointments by phone for outpatients, inpatients,...
Affairs of the heart
1991,
This article reports a study into the management of coronary heart disease within a health district. It is...
A hierarchical divisive clustering method for machine-component grouping problems
1991,
This paper proposes a new approach based on graph theory for the machine-component grouping problem in a...
A simplified procedure for the economic design of control charts: A unified approach
1991,
A simple procedure for selecting the optimal economic design of a control chart for a single assignable...
Detailed simulation of real world job-shop with subassembly requirements
1991,
A highly-detailed model of a furniture manufacturing plant was constructed to evaluate the effects of...
On manufacturing/marketing incentives
1991,
Stereotypically, marketing is mainly concerned about satisfying customers and manufacturing is mainly...
Manufacturing capacity and its measurement: A critical evaluation
1991,
The report reviews and analyzes the concept of productive capacity, identifies four capacities: nominal,...
A TQC philosophy
1991,
There has been a recent upsurge in the quest for world class manufacturing. Tremendous amounts of effort...
Constraint and conflict directed search for the job-shop scheduling problem
1992,
This paper describes the OPIS job-shop scheduling system which is aimed at solving real-life problems via...
The IIASA database for mean monthly values of temperature
1992,
A database for current climate for a global terrestrial grid has been created using weather records from...
The effect of combat degradation on the urban battle
1991,
This paper reviews data on urban combat in the light of an earlier published assessment of degradation in...
Optimal sequential replenishment of ships during combat
1991,
A carrier battle group is operating in an area where it is subject to attack by enemy aircraft. It is...
Interactive optimization methodology for fleet scheduling
1991,
This article addresses the problem of scheduling the United States Navy’s Atlantic Fleet to satisfy...
The Navy passive ranging problem
1991,
One of the important interfaces between the operations researcher and the real world is data, particularly...
A dynamic scheduling and control algorithm in an ENSIDESA steel plant
1991,
When the new steel plant at Empresa Nacional Siderúrgica (ENSIDESA) was built in 1988, automatic...
Political feasibility and policy analysis
1991,
Most analytical techniques assign no weight to political factors even though they may have the strongest...
Theme park selection: Factors influencing attendance
1991,
Theme parks are continuously changing in response to market trends and the benefits sought by individuals...
The witch doctor effect: How professionals impress their clients and achieve a high status in society by developing a unique ‘professional mystique’
1991,
From time immemorial, first the witch doctors, then as societies became more specialized, the professions,...
Scheduling English cricket umpires
1991,
This paper concerns a computer system which was devised to schedule umpires for the major cricket games...
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