An abstract gambler's problem is formulated in a continuous-time setting and analogues are proved for some of the discrete-time results of Dubins and Savage in their book "How to Gamble if You Must." ...

O Berman, Z Drezner, D Krass, Continuous covering and cooperative covering problems with a general decay function on networks, The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 64, No. 11 ...

In many organizations today, the people doing the value-adding work for our customers in engineering, production, distribution or any other function that is creating value often try to hide problems ...

You don't want problems. You want a plant floor or an office or a business process that runs like a well-oiled machine all the time -- in fact you want it to run like a perfectly oiled machine. That ...