The merger of business process design with service-oriented architectures has led to the creation of technologies and associated tools to support a process-centric approach to the development and management of information systems. While much has been written about issues such as service...

Elective surgery patients have surgery in the operating room (OR), and then recover in one or more downstream recovery units for several consecutive hours or days after surgery. Upstream scheduling that focuses on OR alone or a resource-constrained scheduling approach that fails to account for...

This paper contains a new and very successful application of mathematical programming in the petroleum industry. Specifically, the paper describes the design and implementation of a model and computer system to address the complex short-term planning and operational issues associated with the...

Contractual agreements have assumed significant complexity in recent times because of the emergence of strategies like outsourcing and partnering in the successful completion of large software development, manufacturing, and construction projects. A client and contractor enter into an agreement...