Multimodal transportation offers an advanced platform for more efficient, reliable, flexible,
and sustainable freight transportation. Planning such a complicated system provides …

In this paper, a comparison between three transportation systems for the overland transport
of containers between container terminals is presented. A simulation model has been …

Reducing Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding in the hope of improving the ED's
operational efficiency and health care delivery ranks high on every health care decision maker's …

We study the problem of scheduling outpatient chemotherapy infusion appointments at oncology
clinics. Patients are prepared during a fixed initial period of their infusion appointments. …

There is an increasing need to develop a platform for comparing hospital admission planning
systems due to a shift in the service paradigm in the health sector. The current service …

In outpatient chemotherapy, nurses administer the drugs in two steps. In the first few minutes
of each appointment, a nurse prepares the patient for infusion (drug administration). During …

We consider the multi-level lot-sizing (MLLS) problem as it occurs in material requirements
planning systems, with no capacity constraints and a time-invariant cost structure. Many …

We study an assembly system with a number of parallel multistage processes feeding a
multistage final assembly process. Each stage has a stochastic throughput time. We assume that …

In process industry we often meet a situation in which different types of products can be
manufactured on one machine and that there are many possible varieties of each type of product…

Confidentiality protection of data published in tables is a major problem for statistical offices.
To obtain full cooperation of the respondents, it is required that information of individual …