Physician scheduling is a complex and multifaceted challenge that has significant implications for the efficacy and sustainability of healthcare delivery systems worldwide. This area encompasses the ...

A real industrial production phenomenon, referred to as learning effects, has drawn increasing attention. However, most research on this issue considers only single machine problems. Motivated by this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After the school's switch to a new computer system and the addition of a relatively new counseling team this summer, students came back this fall with problems in their schedules, such as having the ...