Healthcare systems consist of many different kinds of actors with varying interests and purposes. This forms a complex set of relationships, which can be seen as a network. The interesting question is how to balance in the network the needs of the patient as the customer and the purposes of the...

"Logistics management is one of the primal topics of Industrial Engineering. This book is the second volume of a three-volume series on global logistic management and focuses on recent developments and implementations of operations research techniques on some selected logistic problems in...