A Decision Support Tool for Health Service Re-design

A Decision Support Tool for distributed Database Design

The efficiency and effectiveness of a distributed database depend primarily on solving two interrelated design problems: data allocation, specifying what data to replicate and where to store it, and operating strategies, specifying where and how retrieval and update processes are performed. We develop a distributed database design approach that comprehensively addresses these problems, explicit...

Multi-Objective Mathematical Model as a Decision Support for Customer Service Marketing

In this paper we propose a multi-objective mathematical model to aid the marketing team of a company in customer service marketing. Customer reflects to the services provided by a company, and the reflections affect the profit of the company. Thus, the services can be evaluated by the customers to imply the company's performances. First, the services are purified based on the opinions of th...

InterQual® Behavioral Health Decision Support Tool

Treatment Chronicle: a Tool for Assessing Health Service Utilization among Insured Individuals

Background: Assessment of the health services utilization among the insured individuals is difficult for insurance companies because they have no integrated information. So, the aim of this study was to introduce a tool to facilitate this issue named "Treatment Chronicle". Method: This descriptive and applied study was conducted in 2017. To investigate the health services utilization among the...

Decision Support Tool for Concurrent Engineering in Space Mission Design

The concurrent engineering (CE) approach has been successfully applied to the early design phase of space missions. During CE sessions, a software support is needed to allow multidisciplinary design data exchange. At the moment, a spreadsheet-based solution enhanced with macros is used at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to create a system model of a space mission during the early design phase...