Background: The development of e-Science presents a major set of opportunities and challenges for the future progress of biological and life scientific research. Major new tools a...
Long waiting times for emergency operations increase a patient’s risk of postoperative complications and morbidity. Reserving Operating Room (OR) capacity is a common technique t...
Gerhard Wullink, Mark van Houdenhoven, Erwin W. Ha...
The multi-vehicle covering tour problem is de"ned on a graph G"(<6=, E), where = is a set of vertices that must collectively be covered by up to m vehicles. The probl...
Mondher Hachicha, M. John Hodgson, Gilbert Laporte...
Telemedicine is many things to many people. Only until a few years ago, telemedicine was equated to video teleconferencing between physicians, while nowadays, perhaps the most acti...
Sang-goo Lee, Seong K. Mun, Prakash Jha, Betty Ann...
Today, we are witnessing a new level of scale, complexity, and pervasiveness of software systems that are designed to support much more holistically complex processes. Much richer...