In general scheduling a sports league is a difficult combinatorial optimization problem. We study some variants of round robin tournaments and analyze the relationship with the planar three index assignment problem. The complexity of scheduling a round robin tournaments is settled by a reduction...

This paper deals with automated guided vehicles (AGVs) which transport containers between the quai and the stack on automated container terminals. The focus is on the assigment of transportation jobs to AGVs within a terminal control system operating in real time. First, we describe a rather...

Effectiveness in the use of the work force is often the crucial advantage in a company's long-term success over its competitors, especially in technology driven and highly competitive branches as the one considered in this article. While employee scheduling and rostering has been the topic of...

Manpower still is one of the most expansive resources, in spite of increasing automation. While employee scheduling and rostering has been the topic of extensive research over the past decades, usually it is assumed that the demand for staff is either given or can be obtained without difficulty....

This paper surveys a large variety of mathematical models and up-to-date solution techniques developed for solving a general flight gate scheduling problem that deals with assigning different aircraft activities (arrival, departure and intermediate parking) to distinct aircraft stands or gates....

This paper addresses the airport flight gate assignment problem with multiple objectives. The objectives are to maximize the total flight gate preferences, to minimize the number of towing activities and to minimize the absolute deviation of the new gate assignment from a so-called reference...

A recurring problem in project management involves the allocation of scarce resources to the individual jobs comprising the project. In many situations such as audit scheduling, the resources correspond to individuals (skilled labour). This naturally leads to an assignment type project...

Die Netzplantechnik zählt zu den für die Praxis wichtigsten Gebieten des Operations Research. Insbesondere die Modelle und Methoden der Struktur- und Zeitplanung werden in vielen Fällen mit Erfolg angewendet. Vorgehensweisen der Kosten- und vor allem der Kapazitätsplanung haben jedoch...

Die Prüfung des Internen Kontrollsystems (IKS) ist eine der Hauptaufgaben bei Abschlußprüfungen. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht grundlegende Techniken der künstlichen Intelligenz, insbesondere regelbasierte Expertensysteme, auf ihre Eignung zur Unterstützung der Beurteilung des IKS bei...