Motivated by applications in health care systems, this study focused on queueing network models with instances of simultaneous resource possession under capacity restrictions in different stages. Customers during service at certain nodes in the first-level or primary system may simultaneously need service from a second-level server. In this…

Agencies need to collaborate with each other to perform missions, improve mission performance, and find efficiencies. The ability of individual government agencies to collaborate with each other for mission and business success and efficiency is complicated by the different techniques used to describe their Enterprise Architectures (EAs).…

A project-specific dispute resolution ladder (DRL) typically consists of multiple alternative dispute resolution (ADR) techniques that are chosen to assist in mitigating the impact of change orders and claims (CCO) occurring during the project construction phase, and avoid their escalation to protracted disputes that adversely affect a…