The computing needs and the input and result datasets of modern scientific and enterprise applications are growing exponentially. To support such applications, High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems need to employ thousands of cores and innovative data management. At the same …
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The increasing dependency of man on machines have led to increase computational load on systems. The increasing computational load can be handled to some extent by scaling up processor frequencies. However, this approach has hit a frequency and power wall and the increasing awar…
The need for chemotherapy treatments at outpatient settings have significantly increased in the past several years. Ambulatory Infusion Centers are encountering difficulties in matching individual patient needs and infusion chair availability due to the high variability in chemo…
Awareness of a project's status improves project-related decision-making on the part of owners, engineers, contractors, and other project stakeholders. Project Performance Indicators (PPI) are metrics generated by construction project schedules that define a project's status, a …
Consider a given set of jobs where each job has an initial cost-free due date which can be increased at a certain cost. We examine the complexity of bicriteria single machine scheduling problems assuming that the total due date assignment cost is the first criterion and one of t…
It is usually assumed that the parameters of an optimization problem to be known numbers or scalars. Accordingly, the objective function value is a scalar or a point value. However, in real life, the parameters may not be known exactly and all we know about them is that they fal…
We study an extension to the general routing problem, which deals with integrating fixed route service with the general pick up and delivery problem to create a hybrid routing problem. The primary application for such a service is a dial-a-ride system used by transit agencies to…
The design and analysis of real time systems of the future is a challenging field of research due partly to the complexity of underlying physical processes and partly due to the increasing demand of integration of such systems with other computer systems already widely in use. R…
The present work deals with thermal generation scheduling, which could be considered the major part of the overall scheduling problem of hydrothermal power systems. The scheduling problem of thermal generating units can be considered as two linked optimization problems. It compr…
Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) enables fine-grain resource sharing of a single superscalar processor among multiple tasks, improving cost-performance. However, SMT cannot be safely exploited in hard-real-time systems. These systems require analytical frameworks for making wor…
Academic interest in production planning and scheduling problems has surged significantly in the last decade. This is primarily a result of increasing competitive pressure on companies in the chemical process industry to remain profitable in a global marketplace by improving pro…
This research addresses an optimal open access scheduling (OAS) and fixed appointment scheduling (FAS) model to offset low show rates and increase clinic profit, using analytical modeling, Monte Carlo simulation, and decision support system (DSS) model. Due to the increasing dem…
Material handling in cross-dock is a relevant class of scheduling problems in distribution centers in which inner transhipment decisions need to be considered in addition to the processing order of trucks. The problem has applications in distribution centers where operators manu…
The growing demand for faster connection to the Internet service and wireless multimedia applications has motivated the development of broadband wireless access technologies in recent years. WiMAX has enabled convergence of mobile and fixed broadband networks through a common wi…
This research addresses the issue of scheduling medical treatments for patients who are coming from out-of-town for follow-up appointments in a Destination Medical Center (DMC). Scheduling all patient appointments (itineraries) in a relatively short period of time (minimum waiti…
This study focuses on the appointment scheduling for patients traveling from out-of-town to Destination Medical Center (DMC) for follow-up medical treatment. The scheduling system in this study is intended to address patient concern of waiting time which is considered as the tim…
Consideration of more than one criterion or objective in production scheduling enables the decision maker to develop schedules that are realistic and implementable. This is especially important in Flexible Manufacturing Cells. However, work with multiple criteria scheduling have…
Strategic management control differs from traditional management control in several important respects. First, it supports both strategy formulation and strategy implementation. Second, it is to a large extent based on non-financial information. Third, it deals with both the lon…
Strategic management control differs from traditional management control in several important respects. First, it supports both strategy formulation and strategy implementation. Second, it is to a large extent based on non-financial information. Third, it deals with both the lon…
