Meeting demand: A multi-method approach to optimizing hospital language interpreter staffing

Multi-objective Evolutionary Approach for Optimizing a Demand Responsive Transport

In this paper, we address the Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) services. A DRT is a flexible transportation service that provides transport on demand, being especially useful in sparsely inhabited areas, which deal with a lack of transportation service. Users formulate requests specifying desired locations and times of pickup and delivery. The vehicle routes are planned and scheduled based on ...

Optimizing Airspace Sectors for Varying Demand Patterns using Multi-Controller Staffing

A variety of design concepts have been implemented in sectorizing en route airspace, e.g. balancing controller workload, aligning sector shape with flow, and maintaining minimum dwell time. To efficiently serve demand variation over time and space and to increase efficiency, models for dynamic airspace management, e.g. frequently changing sector boundaries or reorganizing jet routes, have also ...

Normative Multi-Agent Organizations A Programming Language and its Interpreter

Multi-agent systems are viewed as consisting of individual agents whose behaviors are regulated by organization artifacts. This abstract presents a programming language, which is designed to implement norm-based organization artifacts, by means of an example and explains the execution behavior of the language interpreter. In order to achieve the overall objectives of multi-agent systems, the be...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Optimizing staffing levels: a science and art.