This research establishes the relationship(s) that shared leadership has with two performance metrics in Six Sigma healthcare teams: the perceived effectiveness of a team completing assigned project deliverables and satisfying customer requirements. Another primary goal is to comprehend...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose an artificial intelligence-based framework to support decision making in wholesale distribution, with the aim to limit wholesaler out-of-stocks (OOSs) by jointly formulating price policies and forecasting retailer’s demand....

In this paper we tackle the unconstrained non-staged guillotine two-dimensional cutting problem (U2DCP) with rectangular pieces and one rectangular stock sheet. This problem has been widely treated in literature by exact and heuristic solution methods which use the knapsack function introduced...