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Long waiting time in hospital leads to patient’s low satisfaction. In addition to reducing the actual waiting time (AWT), we can also improve satisfaction by adjusting the expected waiting time (EWT). Then how...
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Open AccessImproving outpatient satisfaction by extending expected waiting time
Long waiting times result in low satisfaction. Although several methods are used to shorten the actual waiting time (AWT) in large hospitals of China, the outpatients still have a long actual waiting time. Thi...
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Preemptive Multi-mode Resource-Constrained Discrete Time-Cost-Resource Optimization via Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm
With the current intense competitive circumstance, preemption is taken into consideration in project scheduling gradually, and multi-objective is providing new insights. For the purpose of practical relevance,...
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Mining potentially more interesting association rules with fuzzy interest measure
The association rules, discovered by traditional support–confidence based algorithms, provide us with concise statements of potentially useful information hidden in databases. However, only considering the con...
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New Multi-class Classification Method Based on the SVDD Model
New decision-making function for multi-class support vector domain description (SVDD) classifier using the conception of attraction force was proposed in this paper. As for multi-class classification problems,...
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Forecasting Daily Cash Turnover of Bank with EWMA and SVR
This paper present one forecasting method with Exponential Weighted Moving Average(EWMA) and Support Vector Regression (SVR). The daily cash turnover of the banks is time-serial data, banks need to forecasting da...
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Chloroplast is a typical plant cell organelle where photosynthesis takes place. In this study, a total of 1 808 chloroplast core proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana were reliably identified by combining the results ...
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When a new investment opportunity of purchasing a new device occurs, the investors must decide whether or not and when to buy this device in an online fashion. That is, the online player must make an investmen...
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Effect of multi-seam mining on subsidence