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The delivery of cost-effective and quality hospital-based health care remains an important and ongoing challenge for the American health care industry. Despite numerous advances in medical procedures and technologies, a growing array of outpatient health care options, limits on inpatient...
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This article employs a mathematical programming model to solve the capacity planning problem of international direct dialling (IDD) services. Our study involves allocating forecasted IDD demand traffic to destination countries via partner suppliers at minimum cost. To facilitate its use, the...
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The research was focused on strategic capacity planning for the liquid crystal display (LCD) module plants under one of the three largest TFT-LCD manufacturers in the world. The results of performance evaluation by data envelopment analysis (DEA) model and cluster analysis indicated the...
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We develop a model of budget allocation for permanent and contingent workforce under stochastic demand. The level of permanent capacity is determined at the beginning of the horizon and is kept constant throughout, whereas the number of temporary workers to be hired must be decided in each...
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In this paper we describe a decision support system developed to help in assessing the need for various type of prison cells. In particular we predict the probability that a criminal has to be sent home because of a shortage of cells. The problem is modelled through a queueing network with...
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This paper explores the notion of “capacity building” from the standpoint of the technological expertise needed for sustainable development policy analysis and execution. It argues that this definition is probably at the root of the concept since it captures the fundamental creativity of an...
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The research was focused on strategic capacity planning for the liquid crystal display (LCD) module plants under one of the three largest TFT-LCD manufacturers in the world. The results of performance evaluation by data envelopment analysis (DEA) model and cluster analysis indicated the...
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