Health Care Systems Engineering for Scientists and Practitioners / Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics Bd.169 (PDF)

manufacturing and management, and healthcare systems. In addition, he has published more than 70 refereed journal articles, 10 book chapters and 100 peer reviewed conference proceedings. He also has served as editor for multiple journals and has received such awards as the 2006 IEEE Early Industry/Government Career Award in Robotics and Automation. His primary research interests are in design, analysis, and improvement and control of production and healthcare delivery systems. His research has been supported by NSF, DOE, NIST, PCORI, industry and healthcare organizations.
Alain Guinet is a full University Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department of INSA (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées) de Lyon in France. He received a PhD in 1983 and an Accreditation to Supervise Research (Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches) in 1992. He currently teaches Operation Research, Staffing and Scheduling, and Business Process Reengineering. His research activity is based on hospital management problems such as operating theatre control, hospital regrouping management, emergency network reengineering, home care resource coordination, hospital supply chain, and logistics for disaster management. His scientific investigations include human and material resources dimensioning, planning and scheduling, production network reengineering, defense, and logistics.

Nico Vandaele holds a degree Commercial Engineering (1990) and obtained a PhD in Applied Economics, Operations Research and Operations Management from KULeuven in 1996. He has served as executive director of the Innovation and Incubation Center at Kortrijk, Nyo Alatus and Xathlon, and has served as consultant/advisor for many major global companies. He is currently Full Professor Operations Management at the KULeuven, Faculty of Business and Economics. He is holder of the GSK Research Chair on Operations Management. He is a research member of the Research Center of Operations Management. He is also a visiting researcher at CORE and IAG (Université Catholique de Louvain). Dr. Vandaele teaches courses in operations research, operations management and supply chain management, and he has published in multiple leading journals. His research interests are situated in modeling of manufacturing and service systems, performance measurement, the design of planning systems, sales and operations management, factory physics, healthcare management, and traffic modeling. Other research deals with decision support systems for product design and development and portfolio management. He is active in several executive training programs, both national and international.