This article provides an overview of health care performance measurement, including a chronological history of the major developments in the performance measurement field. It is not intended to be all-encompassing in its descriptions of events and organizations but, rather, its purpose is to provide a broad historical context for describing health care performance measurement activities of the ...

Mixed performance control problems have been the object of much attention lately. These problems allow for capturing different performance specifications without resorting to approximi+ tions or the use of weighting functions. However, up to date most of the work concerning multiobjective control is limited to guaranteeing nominal performance and robust stability. In this paper we analyze robus...

in competitive markets, the operations strategies of companies are normally formulated based on their competitive advantages. an effective operations strategy should maintain and improve competitive advantages based on the capabilities of the corporate operations resources. considering the market requirements and the operational performance of the rivals is the key for success and survival of a...

Microwave diplexers are often designed iteratively via manual channel-by-channel or resonator-by-resonator local optimization procedures due to high dimensionality in design variables and the complexity of structures. A one-off automated diplexer method is yet be developed. To achieve this, other than improved optimizers, an effective objective function (OF) critical allow optimizers find desir...