Purpose – This paper aims to develop overbooking models to determine the optimal number of overbooking for hotels … the optimal solutions of overbooking for stochastic cancellation. Findings – The authors prove that for hotels with only … one type of room, there exists a closed form solution to guarantee the optimal number of overbooking, depending on the …

intelligent agent technology in health care sector pertaining to hospital search & appointment, patient health monitoring and …

emergency vehicles respond late and when they reach the hospital, precious time is lost in understanding the patient trauma … victims in time, which can happen when the emergency wing of a hospital has advance information about the trauma before the … patient reaches the hospital. Most hospitals lack communication infrastructure that allows them to coordinate with emergency …

for Medicare recipients. The cost indicator includes Medicare charges; the quality of care indicators include hospital …

treated with the highest degree of confidentiality. In practice it proves difficult to achieve this goal. In a hospital … evaluated through manual cross-checks internally and by a group of external experts. Consequently, the hospital's data …

in hospital. Design/methodology/approach A response to existing literature and consideration of application to practice … an individual’s presenting condition at hospital admission may have fatal consequences. Originality/value The importance …

two nursing homes and four nurses were interviewed in one hospital. A semi-structured interview guide was used for data …