Keyword: scheduling

Found 2500 papers in total
A two-stage scheduling method for global humanitarian logistics in large-scale disaster response
2017,
Large‐scale disaster response is a global issue. Planners must make effective...
The permutation flowshop scheduling problem with exact time lags to minimise the total earliness and tardiness
2017,
In this paper, we investigate the problem of n‐jobs scheduling in an...
Heuristic rules for tie-breaking in the implementation of the NEH heuristic for permutation flow-shop scheduling
2017,
In this paper, we propose two new heuristic tie‐breaking rules in the...
Improving patient flow at a family health clinic
2016,
This paper presents an analysis of a residency primary care clinic whose majority of...
Staff planning for operating rooms with different surgical services lines
2016,
We present a two‐phase model for a staff planning problem in a surgical...
Dynamic patient grouping and prioritization: a new approach to emergency department flow improvement
2016,
The demand on emergency departments (ED) is variable and ever increasing, often...
Scheduling Methods for Efficient Stamping Operations at an Automotive Company
2016,
We consider scheduling issues at Beyçelik, a Turkish automotive stamping...
A new model for optimising simultaneously projects selection and resource-constrained project scheduling problem
2016,
The problem of project selection and scheduling is in combination with a few maximum...
Optimal Train Dispatching by Benders’-Like Reformulation
2016,
Train movements on railway lines are generally controlled by human dispatchers....
A Railway Timetable Rescheduling Approach for Handling Large-Scale Disruptions
2016,
On a daily basis, large‐scale disruptions require infrastructure managers and...
Integrating Timetabling and Crew Scheduling at a Freight Railway Operator
2016,
We investigate to what degree we can integrate a train timetabling/engine scheduling...
Mixed-Integer Programming for Railway Capacity Analysis and Cyclic, Combined Train Timetabling and Platforming
2016,
We present the literature’s first mixed‐integer linear programming model...
A Two-Model Solution Approach for the Monthly Coal Train Reservations Planning Problem
2016,
The monthly coal train reservations planning problem arises in the unit train business...
Strategic Hydrogen Refueling Station Locations with Scheduling and Routing Considerations of Individual Vehicles
2015,
A hydrogen refueling station siting model that considers scheduling and routing...
Cyclic Delivery Schedules for an Inventory Routing Problem
2015,
We consider an inventory routing problem where a common vendor is responsible for...
A Quasi-Robust Optimization Approach for Crew Rescheduling
2016,
This paper studies the real‐time crew rescheduling problem in case of...
Joint Assignment, Scheduling, and Routing Models to Home Care Optimization: A Pattern-Based Approach
2015,
The design of efficient home care services is a quite recent and challenging field of...
Solving the Integrated Airline Recovery Problem Using Column-and-Row Generation
2016,
Airline recovery presents very large and difficult problems requiring...
Scheduling and Routing for a Bus-Based Evacuation with a Constant Evacuee Arrival Rate
2015,
This paper introduces a variant of the vehicle routing problem adapted for...
Optimal Algorithm for the General Quay Crane Double-Cycling Problem
2015,
Quay crane efficiency is the key bottleneck for container port productivity. An...
On the Impact of Scheduling Limits: A Case Study at Newark Liberty International Airport
2016,
Scheduling limits have become commonplace at congested airports throughout the world....
Scheduling parallel-machine batch operations to maximize on-time delivery performance
2016,
In this paper we study the problem of minimizing total weighted tardiness, a proxy for...
Worst-case performance analysis of some approximation algorithms for minimizing makespan and flowtime
2016,
In 1976, Coffman and Sethi conjectured that a natural extension of LPT list scheduling...
High-multiplicity scheduling on one machine with forbidden start and completion times
2016,
We are interested in a single machine scheduling problem where jobs can neither start...
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