Due to the rise in American healthcare costs, clinic administrators are increasingly concerned with optimally delivering service to patients. Due to the complex and uncertain nature of patient demand and other factors, models for healthcare systems may have to rely on discrete event simulation that incorporates random effects ...

In fields with sustainment-dominated systems, where the sustainment costs are larger than the original system costs, managing the life-cycle costs is a non-trivial task. These fields include aviation, power plants, medical, military, telecommunications, and civilian safety. In recent years, many of these fields have begun ...