The broad goal of this thesis is to demonstrate the potential positive impacts of applying automatic data to the management and tactical planning of a modern urban railway. Tactical planning is taken here to mean the set of transport-specific analyses and decisions required to manage and improve a railway with time horizons measured in weeks, months, or up to a year and little or no capital inv...

Alaska Simulator Toolset is an interactive software suite developed at the University of Innsbruck which allows to explore different approaches to process flexibility by using a familiar metaphor, i.e., travel planning and execution. In particular, Alaska Simulator Toolset is used for studying research questions in the context of business process management and other related fields. For this, A...

Evidence based practices (EBPs) in clinical settings interact with and adapt to host organizational characteristics. The contextual factors themselves, surrounding health professions' practices, also adapt as practices become sustained. The authors assert the need for better planning models toward these contextual factors, the influence of which undergird a well-documented science to practice g...

Planning allows actions to be structured in pursuit of a future goal. However, in natural environments, planning over multiple possible future states incurs prohibitive computational costs. To represent plans efficiently, states can be clustered hierarchically into "contexts". For example, representing a journey through a subway network as a succession of individual states (stations) is more co...

The tourism in Miaoli has been in great development recently. The wonderful scenery and other potential conditions have sufficient incentives to attract tourists. Though there is such a huge tourist economic market, most tourist service providers are unfortunately not able to integrate the information technology and the tourist services effectively. Therefore, we guide the tourism industry “Cas...

A specification, formulisation and implementation for multiobjective optimised route planning on a transport network is described. Transportation problem search spaces are large and often complex, involving many (independent) variables. Travellers often settle for any journey specification satisfying some weak set of conditions. The approach described provides provably optimal journey specifica...

OBJECTIVE This study identified and measured common patterns of patients' positive care experiences during inpatient palliative consultation, and helped better understand how the journey of discovery experienced by both patients and life-care consult teams can be used to improve the quality of care. METHODS We administered questionnaires to a convenience sample of 25 patients who were referre...