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Minimizing Customer Waiting Costs for Rental Vehicle Providers using Threshold Reservation Policies
(2013-11-23)
Vehicle rental providers o er di erentiated services to reserve and walk-in customers. In
this research, we study one such service di erentiation strategy, a vehicle threshold policy, which is
to hold vehicles for reserve ...
Fleet sizing for transporters with seasonal demands
(International Journal of Automation and Logistics, 2013, 2013)
We develop a quick and approximate way to address the fleet sizing problem for transporters with non-stationary demands and uncertain trip times. Non-stationary demands are modelled using Markov-modulated Poisson process ...
Planning the activities of doctors in a teaching hospital
(2013-11-26)
Doctors in a teaching hospital perform a variety of teaching, research, seminar, and
in-patient care activities in addition to managing outpatient volumes. In this paper,
we study the weekly activities of a doctor in a ...