Accurate prediction of medical operation times is of crucial importance for cost efficient operation room planning in … about 1,250 surgical operations in 2009 is improved by up to more than 15 percent as compared to current planning procedures. …

the coating on these structures, maintenance actions can be done in the most efficient way. Therefore the course of the … deterioration of the coating system and its lifetime, which is also of importance for doing maintenance, have to be assessed …

maintenance optimization models which covers almost all models used in practice. For the class of unimodal finite-valued marginal …