Operations Research in Perioperative Care

Applying Operations Research Models to Problems in Health Care

Title of dissertation: APPLYING OPERATIONS RESEARCH MODELS TO PROBLEMS IN HEALTH CARE Stuart Price, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Dissertation directed by: Professor Bruce Golden Decision, Operations, & Information Technologies Intensitymodulated radiation therapy is a form of cancer treatment that directs high energy x-rays to irradiate a tumor volume. In order to minimize the damage to surroundi...

Applications of Operations Research Models to Problems in Health Care

Title of Dissertation: APPLICATIONS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH MODELS TO PROBLEMS IN HEALTH CARE Carter Claiborne Price, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Dissertation Directed by: Professor Bruce L. Golden R. H. Smith School of Business Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation This dissertation is divided into two parts. In the first portion, we study inflection points in bi-objective variants of t...

Operations research in BASF's supply chain operations

In this article we highlight the application of Operations Research (OR) at BASF in the area of supply chain management (SCM) through the use of selected examples with annual cost savings ranging between several hundred thousand and several million e. We address special characteristics of the process industry that have to be dealt with and identify future research needs. The examples cover stra...

Operations Research Transforms Baosteel's Operations

Forthcoming in Operations Research

Methods for selecting a research and development (R&D) project portfolio have attracted considerable interest among practitioners and academics. This notwithstanding, the industrial uptake of these methods has remained limited, partly due to the difficulties of capturing relevant concerns in R&D portfolio management. Motivated by these difficulties, we develop Contingent Portfolio Programming (...