This study examines disaster response effectiveness. workshop was preceded by a case scenario featuring an explosion in heavily populated Kuala Lumpur City, Malaysia, produced the researchers. The agencies involved used this as storyline to implement response. coordination efforts undertaken each agency can be seen. It is plain see of collaboration that has been putting forth. Focus group discu...

Article history: Received 30 October 2010 Received in revised form 22 February 2011 Accepted 3 March 2011 Available online 31 March 2011 For meaningful scenarios, creative input concerning possible future trends is crucial. Herman Kahn, the father of modern scenario planning, underlined the importance of “thinking the unthinkable” in a significant scenario study. “Blessed with high intelligence...

Regional governance has improved efficiencies in various common goods such as transportation. Attempts to take advantage of such regional economies through regulation of land use run into the problems of existing local government controls and lack of existing alternative authority. One way to help promote regional solutions is to foster coordination among land use entities in local government. ...

in this paper, a multi-period and multi-resource operating room (or) scheduling and rescheduling problem with elective and semi-elective (semi-urgent) patients is addressed. a scheduling-rescheduling framework based on the so-called rolling horizon approach is proposed to solve the problem. the core of the proposed framework is a novel proposed mixed-integer linear programming (milp) model with...