Abstract Quasi-zero-stiffness (QZS) mechanism is one of the significant solutions with its
distinct advantage to the low-frequency vibration isolation problems in mechanical vibration …

Vaccination is an effective way to prevent an epidemic. It results in immunity for the
vaccinated individuals, but it also reduces the infection pressure for unvaccinated people …

In a multi-location, exchangeable-item repair system with stochastic demand, the expected
waiting time and the fill rate measures are oftentimes used as the optimization criteria for the …

This article focuses on the design of systems in which a human operator is responsible for
overseeing autonomous agents and providing feedback based on sensor data. In the control …

Vaccination is a very effective measure to fight an outbreak of an infectious disease, but it
often suffers from delayed deliveries and limited stockpiles. To use these limited doses of …

In many applications including interactive services and big data analytics, a timely result with
a good match is often more valuable than a perfect yet delayed result. This fact can be …

Previous studies that optimize allocation of surveillance resources over space have
assumed that detection rates are constant over time and that travel or survey costs are the …

Problem definition: Achieving broad access to health services (a target within the
sustainable development goals) requires reaching rural populations. Mobile healthcare …

We consider a non-linear version of the Generalized Assignment Problem, a well-known
strongly NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem. We assume that the variables are …

We study optimal fidelity selection for a human operator servicing a queue of homogeneous
tasks. The agent can service a task with a normal or high fidelity level, where fidelity refers to …