The US airline industry has experienced waves of entries and mergers since 1978. The
three waves of mergers in the US airline industry happened in the 1980s, 1990s, and late …

The Data Envelopment Analysis Toolbox is a new package for MATLAB that includes
functions to calculate the main data envelopment analysis models. The package includes …

Among the several emerging dimensioning, control and deployment of future
communication network paradigms stands out the human-centric characteristic that creates …

Cloud Computing popularization inspired the emergence of many new cloud service
providers. The significant number of cloud providers available drives users to complex or …

Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a worldwide public health priority. The increasing
prevalence and the budget constraints force to have effective healthcare, especially at the …

Healthcare facilities, particularly outpatient clinics, are crucial for local communities' medical
needs. To enhance their performance, these facilities need to optimize their operations. Key …

Oasis agriculture in arid areas faces the constraints of scarce resources and a fragile
ecological environment. Improving agricultural production efficiency is the key solution …

There are very few simulation experiments in the literature of multiple input-output
production frontiers. Among these studies, simulations are usually designed for the case of …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the most important determinants of an
organisation's sustainable long-term performance. We employed two models together, the …

Purpose To investigate the relationship between performance frontier and operations
strategy. A two-level conceptual framework is proposed based on performance elements …