the problem we investigate deals with the optimal assignment of resources to the activities of a stochastic project network. we seek to minimize the expected cost of the project include sum of resource utilization costs and lateness costs. we assume that the work content required by the activities follows an exponential distribution. the decision variables of the model are the allocated resourc...

background priority setting in healthcare is a key determinant of health system performance. however, there is no widely accepted priority setting evaluation framework. we reviewed literature with the aim of developing and proposing a framework for the evaluation of macro and meso level healthcare priority setting practices.   methods we systematically searched econlit, pubmed, cinahl, and ebsc...

background: assessment of hospitals’ performance in achieving its goals is a basic necessity. measuring the efficiency of hospitals in order to boost resource productivity in healthcare organizations is extremely important. the aim of this study was to measure technical efficiency and determining status of resource allocation in some university hospitals, in tehran, iran.   methods : this study...

We analyze the relationship between financial development and inter-industry resource allocation in the shortand long-run. We suggest that in the long-run, economies with high rates of financial development will devote relatively more resources to industries with a 'natural' reliance on outside finance due to a comparative advantage in these industries. By contrast, in the short-run we argue th...

Cost efficiency measures the cost of resource by output production. While conventional cost efficiency models set targets separately for each DMU, There are cases where the Central decision making is seeking the above targets, and at the same tries to obtain the target of Min cost efficiency for the total consumption. in this paper we consider that there is a centralized decision maker (DM). In...

With the rapid progress of digital technology, finance has also embarked on fast lane its development. Whether and how development inclusive can improve efficiency financial resource allocation have both been significant questions for Chinese government to answer. This study adopted super-efficiency DEA method measure regional resources in China, integrating with Digital Inclusive Finance (DIF)...

Information Systems Frontiers (ISF) has crossed its first decade. We would like to thank all the Advisory Editors, the Executive Editors, the special issue editors and the various referees from across the world and of course Springer, the publishers, who have made this journal a success. In this last issue of 2012, ISF brings to you, nine articles which span the various topics at the frontiers ...