Keyword: scheduling

Found 2500 papers in total
Flow shop scheduling with peak power consumption constraints
2013,
We study scheduling as a means to address the increasing energy concerns in...
Forecasting for capacity management in call centres: combining methods, organization, people and technology
2013,
Though call centre management has gained increased attention in recent years, call...
Unbounded parallel‐batch scheduling with family jobs and delivery coordination
2011,
We study a scheduling problem that integrates parallel-batch production with family...
Improving adaptivity and fairness of processing real‐time tasks with QoS requirements on clusters through dynamic scheduling
2011,
In this paper, we consider the problem of scheduling a set of independent real-time...
Integrated Block Sharing: A Win–Win Strategy for Hospitals and Surgeons
2012,
We consider the problem of balancing two competing objectives in the pursuit of...
Appointment Scheduling Under Patient No‐Shows and Service Interruptions
2012,
We consider an appointment‐based service system (e.g., an outpatient clinic)...
A stochastic model associated with paediatric heart transplantation
2013,
A child judged to need cardiac transplantation must wait until a suitable donor heart...
Three‐phase approach to service staff assignment for MRO tasks
2012,
Whereas the importance of MRO (Maintenance, Repair and...
Line configuration to minimize setup costs
2012,
A problem is studied in which a production line consisting of a number of workstations...
Optimisation of manufacturing cell formation with extended great deluge meta‐heuristic approach
2012,
The concepts of cellular manufacturing system (CMS) and cell scheduling...
Designing fair 8‐ and 16‐team knockout tournaments
2013,
In an eight‐team single‐elimination tournament without reseeding, teams...
Generic handicapping for paralympic sports
2013,
Class handicapping methods enable different classes of athletes to compete on equal...
The falling tide algorithm: A new multi‐objective approach for complex workforce scheduling
2012,
We present a hybrid approach of goal programming and meta‐heuristic search to...
Lean service operations: Reflections and new directions for capacity expansion in outpatient clinics
2011,
This field research in outpatient service operations examines original quantitative...
Preventive maintenance optimization for a multi‐component system under changing job shop schedule
2012,
Variability and small lot size is a common feature for many discrete manufacturing...
Safety constraints applied to an adaptive Bayesian condition‐based maintenance optimization model
2012,
A model is described that determines an optimal inspection and maintenance scheme for...
Modeling and optimizing maintenance schedule for energy systems subject to degradation
2012,
In recent years, with the increasing investment on distributed energy system (DES),...
A multilevel integrative approach to hospital case mix and capacity planning
2013,
Hospital case mix and capacity planning involves the decision making both on patient...
Branch‐and‐price for staff rostering: An efficient implementation using generic programming and nested column generation
2013,
We present a novel generic programming implementation of a column‐generation...
Supporting clinical processes and decisions by hierarchical
                    planning and scheduling
2011,
This article is focused on how a general-purpose hierarchical planning representation,...
MrSPOCK–STEPS IN DEVELOPING AN END-TO-END SPACE APPLICATION
2011,
This article elaborates around a recent effort to build a planning system that helps...
Deployment and evaluation of selfplanner, an automated individual
                    task management system
2011,
This article presents SelfPlanner, a deployed Web-based intelligent calendar...
Workforce Management in Periodic Delivery Operations
2013,
Service quality and driver efficiency in the delivery industry may be enhanced by...
Robust planning of blending activities at refineries
2013,
Refinery operation planning is a complex task since refinery processes and inventories...
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