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Inducing Optimal Scheduling with Selfish Users

Enders, Paul; Gandhi, Anshul; Gupta, Varun; Debo, Laurens; … - 2008

It is well known that scheduling jobs according to the Shortest-Remaining-Processing-Time (SRPT) policy is optimal for … minimizing mean response time in a single-server system with online arrivals. Unfortunately, SRPT scheduling requires users to … approach for inducing the informed users into self- scheduling themselves according to (an approximation of) SRPT while not …

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Cost Estimating Certifications Offered by Professional Societies in the United States and Abroad

Remer, Donald S.; Ahle, Karen; Alley, Kevin; Silny, John; … - 2007

Many projects in industry and government go over budget and schedule. In most engineering economics courses, the emphasis is on how to compare alternatives and learn about time value of money and interest and inflation rates. The students are usually given the costs and asked to compare the...

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Three Essays on Resource Allocation: Load Balancing on Highly Variable Service Time Networks, Managing Default Risk via Subsidies and Supplier Diversification, and Optimal Hotel Ro...

Caudillo Fuentes, Luz Adriana E. - 2010

The first essay considers a service center with two stations in accordance with independent Poisson processes. Service times at either station follow the same general distribution, are independent of each other and are independent of the arrival process. The system is charged station-dependent...

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Operations Research Methods Applied to Workflow in a Medical Records Department

Edna Chan, S.-Y.; Ohlmann, Jeff; Dunbar, Steven; … - 2002

Transcribing medical documents accurately into pre-defined formats and within certain time frames is vital for administrative and medical purposes in any hospital. This paper describes quantitative models incorporating available data to represent transcription activities of a medical records...

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Optimizing Restaurant Reservation Scheduling

Feldman, Jacob - 2010

We consider a yield-management approach to determine whether a restaurant should accept or reject a pending reservation request. This approach was examined by Bossert (2009), where the decision for each request is evaluated by an approximate dynamic program (ADP) that bases its decision on a...

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Cost Estimating Certifications Offered by Professional Societies in the United States and Abroad

Remer, Donald S.; Ahle, Karen; Alley, Kevin; Silny, John; … - 2007

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The Effect of Cross-Training and Scheduling in an Inbound Call Center Using Simulation

Racz, Melanie Beth - 2004

highest average speed of answer. This result is an indication that carefully planned scheduling, along with strong schedule …

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Filter Scheduling Function Model In Internet Server: Resource Configuration, Performance Evaluation And Optimal Scheduling

Xu, Minghua - 2010

ABSTRACTFILTER SCHEDULING FUNCTION MODEL IN INTERNET SERVER:RESOURCE CONFIGURATION, PERFORMANCE EVALUATION ANDOPTIMAL …, searching, publishing and media streaming,being timing sensitive and/or financially critical. The scheduling policy in Internet … arrival processand scheduling function. For the second factor, it is known from this thesis that convexscheduling function …

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Selling and Leasing Software with Network Externality

Zhang, Jennifer; Seidmann, Abraham - University of Toledo; University of Rochester - 2006

Previous studies suggested that a monopoly durable goods seller can useleasing to effectively avoid the time-inconsistent problem raised byCoase Conjecture. This paper extends those previous works by examiningthe monopoly seller's selling and leasing strategy for a special type ofdurable good...

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Operational risk assessment of chemical industries by exploiting accident databases

Meel, A.; O'Neill, L. M; Levin, J. H; Seider, Warren D.; … - 2007

history and worst-case data from RMP*Info. Risk Analysis, 23(5), 865–881.] summarize the accident frequencies and severities …. Systematic analyses of the databases also help to avoid future accidents, thereby reducing the risk.More specifically, this paper … estimate the capital at risk within an industry utilizing the frequency and loss-severity distributions. …

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