Airdropped supplies are an essential part of military missions and humanitarian disaster support. This paper presents a methodology to determine the optimal location for making supply airdrops in order to minimize collateral damage from the drop while maintaining a high likelihood of successful...

Inventory levels are critical to the operations, management, and capacity decisions of inventory systems but can be difficult to model in heterogeneous, non-stationary throughput systems. The inpatient hospital is a complicated throughput system and, like most inventory systems, hospitals...