A recent study published in Engineering presents a significant advancement in manufacturing scheduling. Researchers Xueyan Sun, Weiming Shen, Jiaxin Fan, and their colleagues from Huazhong University ...

The "branch-and-bound" algorithm for the exact solution of a three-machine scheduling problem proposed by Lomnicki has been generalized to the case of an arbitrary number of machines (under the ...

Coordinating a small group of friends for dinner can be challenging enough. Imagine building a schedule for thousands of students. For Paige Stanley, a Johns Hopkins University senior, the difficulty ...

In collaboration with a hospital, researchers examined problems related to the timing and scheduling of surgeries and patients’ stays in recovery units. They developed an integrated elective surgery ...

On most construction projects, the schedule is treated like a scoreboard that resets after every delay. The last trade to touch the work is the one that gets blamed, even when the real problem started ...