Implementing the dynamic resources sharing is the radical objective of a Grid system. Because resources from Grid are wide-area distributed, heterogeneous and temporary, how to organize and manage such resources is a challenge. For addressing these problems, we introduce soft-sensors to monitor the resources changes, and propose a scenario for sharing the dynamic resources based on the monitori...

This study investigates the impacts of resource sharing on the supply chain efficiency. Due to the increased emphasis on efficiency, modern supply chain processes are no longer labour-intensive. Supply chain management should particularly consider resource sharing. The queuing and AnyLogic approaches are developed in this paper to model and simulate complex supply chain operations. First, based...

Background Nowadays task sharing is a way to optimize utilization of human resources for health. This study was designed to assess the effect of task sharing, mutually between midwives and Family Health Workforces (FHWs), on the number of needed staff across the Iranian Health Posts.   Methods The workload and required number of midwives and FHWs in a Health Post were calculated and compared in...