As the saying goes, health is wealth, and as the number of various diseases have increased in the past few decades, it is very important to monitor the health of the patients on daily basis. Internet of Things(IoT) has become one of the popular area for various applications. IoT will create technological revolution in a large number of applications, such as, smart living, smart home, healthcare...

there has been considerable number of papers published related to six sigma applications in manufacturing and service organizations. however, very few studies are done on reviewing the literature of six sigma in all the areas including manufacturing, construction, education, financial service, bpos and healthcare etc. considering the contribution of six sigma in recent time, a more comprehensiv...

A major challenge for healthcare is how to provide improved services to an increasing number of people using limited financial and human resources. Pervasive healthcare is considered a solution to many existing problems and a possible future of the current healthcare services. In simple terms, pervasive healthcare can be defined as healthcare to anyone, anytime, and anywhere by removing locatio...

The costs associated with the management of healthcare systems have been subject to continuous scrutiny for some time now, with a view to reducing them without affecting the quality as perceived by final users. A number of different solutions have arisen based on centralisation of healthcare services and investments in Information Technology (IT). One such example is centralised management of p...

Developing effective protection, mitigation and recovery measures for critical infrastructures is paramount in the wake of increasing natural and human-initiated hazards, risks and threats. Influencing these measures are interconnections (i.e., interdependencies) among infrastructure systems. Understanding the nature of system interdependencies can play an essential role in minimizing and/or re...

Department of Electronics and Communication, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Computer Science, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA School of Electrical and Automatic Engineering, Chan...

Operations research (OR) focuses on the application of analytical methods to facilitate better decision-making. Despite its usefulness and proliferation of papers in the academic literature, there are still major issues around getting OR models widely accepted and used as part of mainstream decision-making by clinicians, health managers and policy-makers. This article aims to raise the awarenes...

1 Smart Media and Intelligent Life Excellence (SMILE) Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan 2Remote Sensing Signal and Image Processing Laboratory (RSSIPL), Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA 3Department of Computer Scien...