Dynamic Analysis of Local Government under Budget Constraint

Improving the quality of hospital services using the QFD approach and integration with kano analysis under budget constraint

Background and Objectives: One of the main concerns of hospital managers is their ability in improving their organization's performance. The use of quality management and decision-making techniques facilitates managers to achieve this goal. In this research, the corrective activities to increase the quality of hospital services are determined and selected using an integration o...

A dynamic auction for multi - object procurement under a hard budget constraint *

We present a new dynamic auction for procurement problems where payments are bounded by a hard budget constraint and money does not enter the procurer’s objective function. JEL D21, D44, D45, D82.

Soft-Budget Constraint on Local Governments in China

Profit maximization solid transportation problem under budget constraint using fuzzy measures

Fixed charge solid transportation problems are formulated as profit maximization problems under a budget constraint at each destination. Here item is purchased in different depots at different prices. Accordingly the item is transported to different destinations from different depots using different vehicles. Unitsare sold from different destinations to the customers at different selling prices...

Optimal Preventive Maintenance Policy under a Budget Constraint

We design an optimal preventive maintenance policy for a system of N items that minimizes the total expected maintenance cost. We assume that the budget for preventive maintenance is limited and constrained. The problem has a finite time horizon and we consider constant inter-preventive maintenance times for every item. The resulting nonlinear optimization problem is reformulated as a binary in...