Motivated by a major private health insurance payer in the U.S., this paper develops a decision support model to better control healthcare expenditure and maximize payer profit through Provider Network Selection and Patient Targeting (PNSPT). The PNSPT problem involves jointly deciding which...

According to the United States (U.S.), National Shellfish Sanitation Program (NSSP) standards, the shellfish growing areas in modeling, shellfish sanitation, water quality, shellfish closure rules the U.S. must be closed for harvest when the estimated 90th percentile of fecal coliform...