Cycle time optimization could be one of the great challenges in business process management. Although there is much research on this subject, task similarities have been paid little attention. In this paper, a new approach is proposed to optimize cycle time by minimizing entropy of work lists in resource allocation while keeping workloads balanced. The idea of the entropy of work lists comes fr...

It is a common belief that in any environment where life is possible, life will be generated. Here it is suggested that the cause for a spontaneous generation of complex systems is probability driven processes. Based on equilibrium thermodynamics, it is argued that in low occupation number statistical systems, the second law of thermodynamics yields an increase of thermal entropy and a canonic ...

Ideally, life expectancy should be a decreasing function of age. When this fact is not observed, situation known as the table paradox. This paper investigated timing (and health metrics at time) in which Brazil and its Federation Units (FU) overcame (or are expected to overcome) The data were gathered from Brazilian Institute Geography Statistics contained 3,416 sex-specific abridged tables, 20...