The current limited focus on management in global health activities is highly problematic given the amounts of financial and human resources that are pouring into health system strengthening interventions and the complexity of clinical operations across settings. By ensuring that public health and healthcare practitioners in domestic and international settings receive management training in the...

The need to find solutions that would support the increasing number of users has been stimulating many research groups to explore new techniques to increase the system capacity of the mobile communication systems. In this paper, the impact of SDMA (Space Division Multiple Access) technique in system performance and capacity is evaluated. Carrier-to Interference (C/I) level for FDMA / TDMA and f...

There is a cascade of risks associated with a hazard evolving into a disaster that consists of the risk that: (1) a hazard will produce an event; (2) an event will cause structural damage; (3) structural damage will create functional damages and needs; (4) needs will create an emergency (require use of the local response capacity); and (5) the needs will overwhelm the local response capacity an...

Data Aggregation for Capacity Management. (May 2003) Yong Woo Lee, B.E., Inha University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. V. Jorge Leon This thesis presents a methodology for data aggregation for capacity management. It is assumed that there are a very large number of products manufactured in a company and that every product is stored in the database with its standard unit per hour and attribut...

We examine a multiperiod capacity allocation model with upgrading. There are multiple product types, corresponding to multiple classes of demand, and the firm purchases capacity of each product before the first period. Within each period, after demand arrives, products are allocated to customers. Customers who arrive to find that their product has been depleted can be upgraded by at most one le...

Broadly defined, revenue management (RM) is the process of maximizing revenue from a fixed amount of perishable inventory using “market segmentation” and “demand management” techniques. While RM is not new (in fact it is as old as commerce, e.g., haggling in a market can be considered a form of RM), the theory and practice of RM have seen significant scientific and practical advances in the las...

We study networks based on virtual paths, i.e. rearrangable end-to-end transport network. Virtual paths networks are readily implemented in any network using the synchronous digital hierarchy and/or the asynchronous transfer mode. The concept and its advantages, for example cost savings, network operation simpli cation and enhanced network management capabilities, are discussed. Algorithms for ...

Contract manufacturers sell capacity under different terms to different buyers. In a common practice, the supplier offers a market standard price and lead-time combination for products listed in its catalog. At the same time, it strikes contracts with some high-volume customers who require recurring delivery of a custom product at a short notice, usually timed to meet the buyer’s production sch...

Iflew to Washington, DC, last week — a trip rich in distributed information management. Buying tickets, at the gate, in flight, landing, and at the baggage claim, myriad messages about my reservation, the weather, our flight plans, gates, bags, and so forth flew among a variety of travel agency, airline, and US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) computers and personnel. By and large, each ki...