Analysis and Modeling of Manufacturing Systems is a set of papers on some of the newest research and applications of mathematical and computational techniques to manufacturing systems and supply chains. These papers deal with fundamental questions (how to predict factory performance: how to...

Purpose – National Health Systems (NHS) experience low trust and lack of public confidence while receiving strong pressure from governments and societies to improve their quality and compete effectively. The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, to investigate how patients perceive...

One of the most important problems in today’s modeling of transportation networks is an accurate estimate of travel time on arterial links, highway, and freeways. There are a number of deterministic formulas that have been developed over the years to achieve a simple and direct way to estimate...

The classical Wardrop System Optimum assignment model assumes that the users will cooperate with each other in order to minimize the overall travel costs. The importance of the system optimum model lies on its well-recognized ability of producing solutions that correspond to the most efficient...