. Using the empirical context of cardiovascular care within hospitals, we first examine the relationship between a hospital …

minimized. An existing heuristic procedure for this problem is extended, and computational experience is provided for several … cases. A simple vertex addition heuristic and its use as a "pre-processor" to the extended procedure is described and tested …

. It develops and tests through the use of simulation a heuristic for determining what level of service the customer …

heuristic performance. A worst-case study establishes the maximum deviation from optimality that can occur when a specified … heuristic is applied within a given problem class. This is an important piece of information that can be combined with empirical … testing and other analyses to provide a more complete evaluation of a heuristic. In this paper the basic ground rules of worst …

problems. Therefore, practitioners are forced to use heuristic methods to schedule their jobs on multiple processors. This … our total tardiness can be lowered substantially? How far off might the heuristic solution be, from the optimal solution …?" The study reported in this paper focuses on a heuristic which can handle reasonably large problems, and yet can be simply …

We develop in this paper two types of heuristic methods for solving the positive 0-1 polynomial programming (PP … investigated. The results were very encouraging. Optimal solutions were consistently obtained by some of the heuristic methods in …

proof of intractability accompanied by a heuristic algorithm with worst-case and asymptotic performance analysis …

Pivot and Complement is a heuristic for finding approximate solutions to 0-1 programming problems. It uses the fact …

services and is an excellent heuristic for general service times. …