In clinic＇s appointment scheduling system no-shows have been a significant and confirmed issue with a bad influence on patient accessibility and clinic efficiency. The problem of walk-in has often been seen as the op...In clinic＇s appointment scheduling system no-shows have been a significant and confirmed issue with a bad influence on patient accessibility and clinic efficiency. The problem of walk-in has often been seen as the opposite of no-show problem. In this work we revisit a walk-in admitting based approach to mitigate the bad influence of no-show without overbooking. First we establish a model which utilizes marginal benefit objective function to balance the interests of the clinic, the patient and the doctor, we prove that no-show and walk-in cancels out each other straightly has a bad property. Then we propose a new rule which is an extension of the well-known Bailey - Welch rule, the simulation results show that our rule has an improvement comparing with the common rule that cancels them out straightly.展开更多
This article presents an application of generalized pattern search （PS） algorithm to solve economic load dispatch （ELD） problems with convex and non-convex fuel cost objective functions. Main objective of ELI） is...This article presents an application of generalized pattern search （PS） algorithm to solve economic load dispatch （ELD） problems with convex and non-convex fuel cost objective functions. Main objective of ELI） is to determine the most economic generating dispatch required to satisfy the predicted load demands including line losses. Relaxing various equality and inequality constraints are considered. The unit operation minhnum/maximum constraints, effects of valve-point and line losses are considered for the practical applications. Several case studies were tested and verified, which indicate an improvement in total fuel cost savings. The robustness of the proposed PS method have been assessed and investigated through intensive comparisons with reported results in recent researches. The results are very encouraging and suggesting that PS may be very useful tool in solving power system ELD problems.展开更多
文摘In clinic＇s appointment scheduling system no-shows have been a significant and confirmed issue with a bad influence on patient accessibility and clinic efficiency. The problem of walk-in has often been seen as the opposite of no-show problem. In this work we revisit a walk-in admitting based approach to mitigate the bad influence of no-show without overbooking. First we establish a model which utilizes marginal benefit objective function to balance the interests of the clinic, the patient and the doctor, we prove that no-show and walk-in cancels out each other straightly has a bad property. Then we propose a new rule which is an extension of the well-known Bailey - Welch rule, the simulation results show that our rule has an improvement comparing with the common rule that cancels them out straightly.
文摘This article presents an application of generalized pattern search （PS） algorithm to solve economic load dispatch （ELD） problems with convex and non-convex fuel cost objective functions. Main objective of ELI） is to determine the most economic generating dispatch required to satisfy the predicted load demands including line losses. Relaxing various equality and inequality constraints are considered. The unit operation minhnum/maximum constraints, effects of valve-point and line losses are considered for the practical applications. Several case studies were tested and verified, which indicate an improvement in total fuel cost savings. The robustness of the proposed PS method have been assessed and investigated through intensive comparisons with reported results in recent researches. The results are very encouraging and suggesting that PS may be very useful tool in solving power system ELD problems.
