About the Authors

Özden O. Dalgıç

Affiliation Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Osman Y. Özaltın

oyozalti@ncsu.edu

Affiliation Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

William A. Ciccotelli

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Grand River Hospital, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Fatih S. Erenay

Affiliation Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: OD OO FE. Formal analysis: OD. Funding acquisition: OO FE. Methodology: OD OO FE. Project administration: OO FE. Software: OD OO. Supervision: OO FE WC. Writing – original draft: OD OO FE. Writing – review & editing: OD OO FE.