As coal is the main energy source in China, coal overcapacity and undercapacity have
negative impacts on the economy, environment, and energy security. To reveal the optimal …

When launching a new product, the manufacturing and marketing functions of a firm are
required to jointly take critical decisions concerning the amount of manufacturing capacity to …

In this paper we address the decision of choosing a patient mix for a hospital that leads to
the most beneficial treatment case mix. We illustrate how capacity, case mix and patient mix …

The increasing demands for water and the dwindling resources of fresh water create a
critical need for continually enhancing desalination capacities. This poses a challenge in …

In this thesis we address a number of challenging problems related to health care logistics.
These problems are motivated by hospital managers who collaborated in the research, and …

As traffic demand increases over time, improvements to existing transportation networks
must be considered for enhancing efficiency, capacity or both. Because of limited resources …

This paper presents a novel approach to compute optimal machine capacity
expansion/contraction times under uncertain demand. A polynomial time …

This paper studies capacity expansions for a production facility that faces uncertain
customer demand for a single product family. The capacity of the facility is modeled in three …

This paper studies machine capacity expansions for a production facility facing uncertain
customer demand. The capacity of the facility has nested and expandable limitations …

This chapter examines the problem of determining a project selection schedule and a
production-distribution-inventory-import schedule for each plant so as to meet the demands …