Methodology Comparison for Designing a Decision-making Support System

Designing interfaces for effective decision-making supports for complex, dynamic systems is a challenging task. Besides the already challenging task of determining the visual form, the task of defining the content of these supports can be even more demanding. Especially for an unstable and complex work domain with multiple stakeholders and...

Pipe failure modelling for water distribution networks using boosted decision trees

Pipe failure modelling is an important tool for strategic rehabilitation planning of urban water distribution infrastructure. Rehabilitation predictions are mostly based on existing network data and historical failure records, both of varying quality. This paper presents a framework for the extraction and processing of such data to use it for...

Saving costs and improving quality of care for hospitals by reducing variation in hospital bed occupation through the master surgical schedule

Due to rising costs and an increasing demand for health care services Dutch hospitals are looking for ways to reduce costs while maintaining or increasing the level of patient satisfaction. Reducing variation in bed occupation in common nursing wards could save costs by reducing the amount of required beds and nurse staffing, and increase...

Developing a Decision Support System for the Logistics Planning of Reel-lay Projects at Heerema Marine Contractors

Gaming and simulation for transforming and reengineering government: Towards a research agenda

Purpose – In the process of transformation, governments have to deal with a host of stakeholders and complex organizational and technical issues. In this viewpoint paper, an argument is made in favour of using gaming and simulation as tools designed to aid the transformation and reengineering of government. Based on the argument, a research...

Improving real-time train dispatching: Models, algorithms and applications

Traffic controllers monitor railway traffic sequencing train movements and setting routes with the aim of ensuring smooth train behaviour and limiting as much as existing delays. Due to the strict time limit available for computing a new timetable during operations, which so far is rather infeasible by using existing tools, railway traffic...

Incorporating Expert Knowledge in Decision Support for Logistics: Balancing Costs and Customer Relations

Decision support within transport companies should not only use traditional objective functions, but also reason about qualitative effects on all involved actors. We propose a fuzzy logic rule base that can be used in addition to traditional operation research tools to calculate not just optimal solutions, but solutions that are optimal with...

DELTA.M: A tool for metropolitan designing systems

This research deals with the development of a tool to enable designers, decision-makers and citizens to jointly shape the physical environments they inhabit, through interaction and communication via electronic networks. The designing of physical environment becomes the collective responsibility of all interested societal actors, who together...

A fuzzy decision support system for magnetic component design

Decision support systems and modern maritime air defence fuzzy identification of targets

Design of a Distribution Planning Support System

Balancing growth, poverty and the environment: Utilizing critical planning to adjust land and infrastructure illustration from Latin America