Abstract The flow of technical work in acute healthcare varies unpredictably, in patterns that occur regularly enough that they can be managed. Acute care organizations develop wa...
Christopher P. Nemeth, Mark Nunnally, Michael F. O...
Stochastic modeling forms the basis for analysis in many areas, including biological and economic systems, as well as the performance and reliability modeling of computers and comm...
We focus on the Golomb ruler problem, a hard constrained combinatorial optimization problem. Two alternative encodings are considered, one based on the direct representation of sol...
In this paper, we review parallel search techniques for approximating the global optimal solution of combinatorial optimization problems. Recent developments on parallel implementa...
Panos M. Pardalos, Leonidas S. Pitsoulis, Thelma D...
The footwear industry's need for an automatic containment algorithm is becoming increasingly important within the manufacturing process. Irregular containers, such as hides, ...