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In practice, when faced with a complex optimization problem, human decision-makers often separate it into subproblems and then solve each subproblem instead of tackling the complete problem. This paper describes a study ...

In practice, when faced with a complex optimization problem, teams of human decision-makers often separate it into subproblems and then solve each subproblem instead of tackling the complete problem. It would be useful ...

The problem of scheduling periodic services that have different period lengths seeks to find a schedule in which the workload is nearly the same in every time unit. A time unit’s workload is the sum of the workloads of ...

Motivated by the need to create plans for delivering medication quickly during a public health emergency, this paper formulates the Inventory Slack Routing Problem. The planning goal is to deliver material as early as ...

Finding feasible strategies to distribute antibiotics quickly to the general public in response to an anthrax attack remains a difficult challenge. Among the proposed strategies is the pre-event placement of pharmaceuticals ...

This paper describes the results of a simulation study that evaluated the performance of different separations of the plant layout problem solved by bounded rational decision-makers. Seven problem instances from the ...

The deliberate release of aerosolized anthrax spores in a large city will expose thousands to this deadly disease. Although state and local health departments have developed contingency plans for promptly opening points ...

The scholarly study of design continues to develop new knowledge through a variety of approaches. Some researchers examine how designers work, and many develop new methods to help designers do design tasks. Studying ...

In a public health emergency, resupplying points of dispensing (PODs) with the smallest number of vehicles is an important problem in mass dispensing operations. To solve this problem, this paper describes the Continuous ...