In recent years, the performance-based approach to contracting for medical services has been gaining popu-larity across different healthcare delivery systems, both in the US (under the name of "Pay-for-Performance",or P4P), and abroad ("Payment-by-Results", or PbR, in the UK). One common element...

Die Geschäftsstellen müssen für die Zeitspanne der Euro-Bargeld-Einführung(17.12.2001 bis 28.02.2002) mit einem deutlich höheren Kunden- und Transaktionsaufkommenim Kassengeschäft rechnen. Damit weder chaotische Zuständemit langen Warteschlangen noch hohe Zusatzkosten die Folgen sind,...

A set of agents with possibly different waiting costs have to receive the same service one after theother. Efficiency requires to maximize total welfare. Equity requires to at least treat equal agentsequally. One must form a queue, set up monetary transfers to compensate agents having to...

In this paper, we present a bounding methodology that allows to compute a tight lower boundon the cycle time of fork--join queueing networks with blocking and with general service timedistributions. The methodology relies on two ideas. First, probability masses fitting (PMF)discretizes the...