Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) issued an order recently requiring that all hospitals have an evacuation plan with the following components: sheltering plan,...
One of the more complex maneuvers a hospital system can perform is moving an entire patient population from an old facility to a replacement facility. All patients must be transpo...
Marshall Ashby, Martin J. Miller, David M. Ferrin,...
Traditionally, scheduling in high-end parallel systems focuses on how to minimize the average job waiting time and on how to maximize the overall system utilization. Despite the d...
The processes carried out in a hospital emergency department can be thought of as structures of activities that require resources in order to execute. Costs are reduced when resou...
In this paper, we present the overall design for an auctioning based resource trading/acquiring system that can be deployed in wide-area computing systems such as Grid systems. Se...
Chunming Chen, Muthucumaru Maheswaran, Michel Toul...