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...

BACKGROUND Zoonoses account for over half of all communicable diseases causing illness in humans. As there are limited resources available for the control and prevention of zoonotic diseases, a framework for their prioritization is necessary to ensure resources are directed into those of highest importance. Although zoonotic outbreaks are a significant burden of disease in North America, the sy...

Abstract Requirements prioritization is giving priority to software requirements on the basis of its importance. The current research paper addresses importance and limitations existing prioritization. A lot techniques are presented by authors, but these have certain limitations. Not all either applied or suitable prioritize types requirements. Similarly, in techniques, only few scalable for la...

Regarding to the diversified needs of domestic and global customers and various products of domestic and global competitors, importance of agility in supply chain management becomes more important. Suppliers have to provide materials and essential resources of manufacturers in a short time without any lead time.In this research, we identified many criteria for agility in sanitation supply chain...

Despite continued public and private research investments in suicide prevention over the past several decades, there is no evidence of an overall decrease in suicide deaths or attempts. The Research Prioritization Task Force (RPTF) has developed the first U.S. research prioritization plan aimed at producing the knowledge necessary to substantially reduce the national suicide burden using multip...

The order in which test-cases are executed has an influence on the rate at which faults can be detected. In this paper we demonstrate how test-case prioritization can be performed with the use of model-checkers. For this, different well known prioritization techniques are adapted for model-based use. New property based prioritization techniques are introduced. In addition it is shown that prior...

Requirements prioritization method is an essential activity in software development to identify most important functionalities of the project within limited resources. This work evaluates various requirements prioritization methods with respect to a number of parameters viz. size of the project, feasibility measure, conflicts resolution, complexity analysis and keeps the developer focused on mo...

The Software testing phase of the development life cycle model of software plays a very important role in deciding the quality and functionality of the software. The Testing of the software is done to detect the fault in its functionality and on the basis of its performance further quality of software is improved. In the software testing phase there is a task involved which is prioritization of...

water crisis resource management originates from limited resources has made it essential to study the prioritization of traditional and modern methods of sustainable water resource management. the objective of such studies is to provide a list of prioritized traditional and modern methods of sustainable water resource management. this research aims to study rainwater harvesting method and qanat...