Parallel Planning Mechanisms as a "Recipe for Disaster"

A Recipe for a Medical Disaster

One of the best ways to accomplish that goal would appear to be to find a way to easily spread antibioticresistant bacteria, aka "superbugs", and to do it in such a way as to keep the project under the radar of medical regulatory agencies such as the CDC and the FDA. Because some of the most difficult-to-treat antibioticresistant bacteria are found in the intestines of patients, an obvious mean...

TeX and SGML: A Recipe for Disaster?

The relationshp between T$ and SGML (Standard Generalised Markup Language, IS0 8879) has often been uneasy, with adherents to one system or the other displaying symptoms remininscent of the religious wars popular between devotees of T$ and of word-processors. SGML and T$ can in fact coexist successfully, provided features of one system are not expected of the other. T h s paper presents a pilot...

A Multi-Objective Programming Model for Disaster Preparedness Planning

Nowadays, the necessity of accurate quantitative decision support methods is becoming a critical subject for managers as rivalry between organizations caused a more fragile economic environment and brand reputation is becoming more important. Furthermore, dealing with incidents after they happened is not accepted by customers anymore. Managers require powerful decision making tools to support t...

A planning framework for post-disaster collective shelters

Background and objective: Accommodation of the victims is necessary immediately after the accident to maintain order and reduce mental, psychological and physical crises, as well as providing better services to the victims of the accident. The experience of the AQ-Qala flood and the temporary accommodation of the victims in sports venues has made the need for the design of a collective shelter ...

Coalition plans for English NHS. A recipe for disaster?