An important aspect in software engineering is the ability to distinguish between premature, unnecessary, and necessary ...

Christopher Shaffrey, MD, has seen spine care evolve through rapid innovation.  But as outcomes and complication rates face greater scrutiny, the chief of the spine division at Durham, N.C.-based Duke ...

Abstract: In this article, we deal with stochastic optimization problems where the data distributions change in response to the decision variables. Traditionally, the study of optimization problems ...

Abstract: Multiple response optimization (MRO) aims to obtain an optimal solution by optimizing several responses simultaneously for quality improvement. The preference parameters in the traditional ...