OBJECTIVE We examined whether the addition of a standardized discharge planning template (DPT) for the electronic medical record facilitated scheduling of outpatient neurology follow-up appointments in children hospitalized with seizures. METHODS We reviewed medical records of patients discharged from a children's hospital with a diagnosis of seizures between January 2012 and June 2013. The s...

One of the main features of High Throughput Computing systems is the availability of high power processing resources. Cloud Computing systems can offer these features through concepts like Pay-Per-Use and Quality of Service (QoS) over the Internet. Many applications in Cloud computing are represented by workflows. Quality of Service is one of the most important challenges in the context of sche...

An efficient assignment and scheduling of tasks is one of the key elements in effective utilization of heterogeneous multiprocessor systems. The task scheduling problem has been proven to be NP-hard is the reason why we used meta-heuristic methods for finding a suboptimal schedule. In this paper we proposed a new approach using TRIZ (specially 40 inventive principles). The basic idea of thi...

This paper discussed the scheduling problem of outpatients in a radiology center with an emphasis on priority. To more compatibility to real-world conditions, we assume that the elapsed times in different stages to be uncertain that follow from the specific distribution function. The objective is to minimize outpatients’ total spent time in a radiology center. The problem is formulated as a fle...

Contemporary computer systems are multiprocessor or multicomputer machines. This chapter will introduce the basics of multiprocessor scheduling. Consequently, the eld of scheduling for multiprocessor systems.The main motivation for multiprocessor scheduling is the desire for increased. The scheduling problem for multiprocessor systems can be generally stated as.Concurrency implemented by schedu...