Large‐scale disease screening is a complicated process in which high costs must be
balanced against pressing public health needs. When the goal is screening for infectious …

Screening is a powerful tool for infection control, allowing for infectious individuals, whether
they be symptomatic or asymptomatic, to be identified and isolated. The resource burden of …

This paper focuses on the generalized grouping problem in the context of cellular
manufacturing systems (CMS), where parts may have more than one process route. A …

Group testing study designs have been used since the 1940s to reduce screening costs for
uncommon diseases; for rare diseases, all cases are identifiable with substantially fewer …

This article reviews a class of adaptive group testing procedures that operate under a
probabilistic model assumption as follows. Consider a set of $ N $ items, where item $ i …

Choosing an optimal strategy for hierarchical group testing is an important problem for
practitioners who are interested in disease screening with limited resources. For example …

Specimens are collected from $ N $ different sources. Each specimen has probability $ p $
of being contaminated, independently of the other specimens. We assume group testing is …

Consider a finite population of N items, where item i has a probability pi to be defective. The
goal is to identify all items by means of group testing. This is the generalized group testing …

Specimens are collected from N different sources. Each specimen has probability p of being
contaminated (in the case of a disease, eg, p is the prevalence rate), independently of the …