David M. Miller

TL;DR: A spatial decision support system (SDSS) successfully integrates stand-alone PC-based geographic-information-system software with scheduling heuristics and databases to form a user-friendly tool that saves the association travel time and schedule-preparation time and improves the balance of work among nurses.

TL;DR: This research shows that organizations with a number of "sister" plants, warehouses, or other stocking points can profit from the concept of proactive use of transshipments as an element of their inventory control policy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the formulation and solution of the problem of planning vehicle routes for material delivery within the premises of a plant working under a just-in-time production system, where the quantity to be delivered at each of the demand nodes is a function of the route taken by the vehicle assigned to serve that node.

TL;DR: This research employs a simulation optimization approach to develop a decision support tool to aid in strategic and operational decision-making and demonstrates the ability of the solution approach to analyze complex industrial systems and identify potential improvements in a short time frame.

TL;DR: How the underlying decision problem was analyzed was analyzed using both a network flow model and a mixed integer programming model, and the components of the decision support system developed to generate schedules are described.