This study investigates the development of strategies for controlling a NASA ALS/NSCORT system. The water subsystem is the focus due to the complexity of the overall system, and because water is one of the most expensive and crucial resources for human survival. A water-treatment model is...

In the last decade, regardless of whether the world economy was in recession or prosperity, the semiconductor business has continued to propel not only the electronics industry but many other industries as well. However, semiconductor manufacturing is among the most complicated and...

A scheduling strategy to determine starting times of surgeries in multiple operating rooms (OR) is presented. The constraints are resource limit of a downstream facility, post-anesthesia care unit (PACU), and the service time uncertainties. Given sets of surgeries that need to be done on a day,...

The purpose of this study is to provide a guideline for designing a hospital's centralised registration process. This study examines the two-stage patient flow and how registration queue disciplines affect the performance of clinic idle time and patient waiting time. We first identify and...