• Improving Efficiency in Allocating Pediatric Ambulatory Care Clinics 

  Haraldsson, Haraldur Hrannar

  Low utilized resources is a common problem in the health care sector. As health care costs and the need for more efficient operations increases, managers are looking for new methods to increase the utilization of their ...
• Driver Behavioral Adaptation to In-Vehicle Technologies: Influence of Demands and Exposures 

  Peng, Yiyun

  In-Vehicle Information Systems (IVIS) can assist drivers by increasing both safety and efficiency, but may also divert drivers' attention away from the road and cause distractions. The goal of this dissertation is to examine ...
• Developing Domain-specific Simulation Objects for Modeling Clinical Laboratory Operations 

  Hu, Shuainan

  Clinical laboratories play a critical role in patient diagnosis, treatment planning and prevention of disease. The inherent complexity of clinical laboratories lies both in the volume and variety of specimen types, which ...
• Exploring the Impact of Virtual Medicine on the Patient-Centered Medical Home 

  Yuan, Ye

  The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a health care delivery model where a patient has an ongoing relationship with a personal physician who provides comprehensive and appropriate health care. Enhanced health care ...
• Scheduling Mass Customized Large Product Assembly Line Considering Learning Effect and Shifting Bottleneck 

  Chen, Kuowei (2014-04-30)

  The large product assembly industry is a complex and heavily manually based assembly manufacturing process. Examples are commercial airplanes, ships, and wind turbines. These manufacturing enterprises are increasingly ...
• Complex Adaptive Food Supply Systems 

  Krejci, Caroline C. (2014-02-24)

  The long-term sustainability of food supply chains (FSCs) is critical to human and environmental health. While the modern industrial FSC is capable of the production and global distribution of enormous quantities of food, ...
• Reducing Disruptive Effects of Patient No-shows: A Scheduling Approach 

  Fu, Mingang (2013-11-14)

  Appointment scheduling systems have been studied for nearly 60 years. From a decision making point of view, related problems can be classified into two categories: static and dynamic. In a static scheduling problem, all ...
• Quantifying Drivers' Use of In-Vehicle Systems: Implications for Long-term Behavior 

  Xiong, Huimin (2013-07-23)

  The modern day vehicles encompass many in-vehicle Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), which can provide continuous feedback to drivers but do require an understanding of the driver, system, and vehicle interactions. ...
• Feedforward Control and Process Improvement for Some Time Series Disturbance Models 

  Shi, Lihui (2013-02-25)

  Process adjustment strategy is an important part of the process improvement methods, which is also called engineering process control (EPC), and it is often integrated with statistical process control (SPC) to improve the ...
• An Investigation of Applications of Artificial Neural Networks in Medical Prognostics 

  Ghavami, Peter K. (2013-02-25)

  During the course of care, patients frequently develop escalating health problems that lead to medical complications, costly treatments, severe pains, disabilities and even death. Predicting such escalations provides ...
• A Web-based System for Optimizing Post Disaster Temporary Housing Allocation 

  Chen, Lei (2012-09-13)

  Natural catastrophes can result in large scale displacement of populations, who are in urgent need of temporary quarters until permanent housing can be provided. During this period, the temporary housing plays an important ...
• Non-invasive Real-time Assessment of Muscle Fatigue during Computer Use: Using Mouse Button-Click and Keystroke Durations 

  Kim, Jeong Ho (2012-09-13)

  Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) account for a large proportion of occupational injuries. As the computer has become ubiquitous in office work environments, so have computer-related MSDs. Since most work-related MSDs ...
• Statistical Analyses of the Perceptions and Trust of Adaptive Cruise Control Owners 

  Wu, Yuqing (2012-08-10)

  Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), an advanced version of conventional cruise control (CCC), can detect the distance to a vehicle ahead and assist drivers in maintaining a set speed and headway distance. The system has been ...
• Reverse Logistics: A Multicriteria Decision Model With Uncertainty 

  Barker, Theresa J. (2010-08-20)

  Waste reduction is critical in today's manufacturing climate. Producers are being compelled to incorporate reverse logistics into their supply chain by government legislation, the potential for recovering economic value, ...
• Tracking consensus in product development teams 

  Morrow, Jeffrey A. (Jeffrey Alden) (1998)

  Modern concurrent engineering requires that the perspectives of the stakeholders in the product realization process be harmonized as early as possible in that process. We consider this harmonization to consist largely of ...
• Asynchronous stochastic learning curve effects in a large scale production system 

  Lu, Roberto Francisco-Yi (2008)

  Large scale production systems contain dynamically unequal distributing lead times and improvement rates. This has made it very problematic to statistically predict the ability of global partners to meet common deadlines ...

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