^ < i="">^ Alexander Kolker, Ph.D., has served as Operations Project Manager with Children's Hospital and Health System, Froedtert Hospital, Wisconsin, and as a Data Scientist at General Electric (GE) Healthcare. Dr. Kolker is the primary author of Healthcare Management Engineering (2012) and Management Engineering for Effective Healthcare Delivery (2011), and has been a frequent speaker at international conferences and webinars in healthcare operations management and data analytics. He has previously taught healthcare operations research and management science for the National Health System (NHS)-Midland & Lancashire Support Unit, UK.

• Chapter 1. Traditional and Management Engineering in Operational Decision-Making.- Chapter 2. Capacity and Patient Flow Problems.- Chapter 3. Staffing and Scheduling Problems with Uncertain Patient Demand.- Chapter 4. Staffing and Resource Allocation Problems Amenable to Analytic Optimization Methods.- Chapter 5. Resource Allocation and Service Lines Problems and Linear Optimization Methodology.- Chapter 6. Staffing and Scheduling of Full-time and Part-time Employees with Sliding Mandatory Days-off for Multiple Shift Operations using Integer Linear Optimization Methodology.- Chapter 7. Comparative Efficiency of Units with Multiple Inputs and Outputs. Introduction into Data Envelopment Analysis..- Chapter 8. Advanced Multivariable Statistical Data Analysis.- Chapter 9. Introduction into the Concept of the Shapley Value.- Chapter 10. Summary of Fundamental Management Engineering Principles

^ < i="">^ Alexander Kolker, Ph.D., has served as Operations Project Manager with Children's Hospital and Health System, Froedtert Hospital, Wisconsin, and as a Data Scientist at General Electric (GE) Healthcare. Dr. Kolker is the primary author of Healthcare Management Engineering (2012) and Management Engineering for Effective Healthcare Delivery (2011), and has been a frequent speaker at international conferences and webinars in healthcare operations management and data analytics. He has previously taught healthcare operations research and management science for the National Health System (NHS)-Midland & Lancashire Support Unit, UK.

• Chapter 1. Traditional and Management Engineering in Operational Decision-Making.- Chapter 2. Capacity and Patient Flow Problems.- Chapter 3. Staffing and Scheduling Problems with Uncertain Patient Demand.- Chapter 4. Staffing and Resource Allocation Problems Amenable to Analytic Optimization Methods.- Chapter 5. Resource Allocation and Service Lines Problems and Linear Optimization Methodology.- Chapter 6. Staffing and Scheduling of Full-time and Part-time Employees with Sliding Mandatory Days-off for Multiple Shift Operations using Integer Linear Optimization Methodology.- Chapter 7. Comparative Efficiency of Units with Multiple Inputs and Outputs. Introduction into Data Envelopment Analysis..- Chapter 8. Advanced Multivariable Statistical Data Analysis.- Chapter 9. Introduction into the Concept of the Shapley Value.- Chapter 10. Summary of Fundamental Management Engineering Principles

^ < i="">^ Alexander Kolker, Ph.D., has served as Operations Project Manager with Children's Hospital and Health System, Froedtert Hospital, Wisconsin, and as a Data Scientist at General Electric (GE) Healthcare. Dr. Kolker is the primary author of Healthcare Management Engineering (2012) and Management Engineering for Effective Healthcare Delivery (2011), and has been a frequent speaker at international conferences and webinars in healthcare operations management and data analytics. He has previously taught healthcare operations research and management science for the National Health System (NHS)-Midland & Lancashire Support Unit, UK.

• Chapter 1. Traditional and Management Engineering in Operational Decision-Making.- Chapter 2. Capacity and Patient Flow Problems.- Chapter 3. Staffing and Scheduling Problems with Uncertain Patient Demand.- Chapter 4. Staffing and Resource Allocation Problems Amenable to Analytic Optimization Methods.- Chapter 5. Resource Allocation and Service Lines Problems and Linear Optimization Methodology.- Chapter 6. Staffing and Scheduling of Full-time and Part-time Employees with Sliding Mandatory Days-off for Multiple Shift Operations using Integer Linear Optimization Methodology.- Chapter 7. Comparative Efficiency of Units with Multiple Inputs and Outputs. Introduction into Data Envelopment Analysis..- Chapter 8. Advanced Multivariable Statistical Data Analysis.- Chapter 9. Introduction into the Concept of the Shapley Value.- Chapter 10. Summary of Fundamental Management Engineering Principles