Master surgical scheduling can improve manageability and efficiency of operating room departments. This approach cyclically executes a master surgical schedule of surgery types. These surgery types need to be constructed with low variability to be efficient. Each surgery type is scheduled based...

This paper addresses four levels in carbon management decision-making: government, enterprise, plant, and process. Robust decision-making at any level requires consideration of the constraints and requirements of other levels. The focus of the paper is the enterprise level, when a power...

Consider a set of manufacturers, all of which can subcontract part of their workload to a third party. For simplicity, we assume that every manufacturer as well as the third party each possess a single production facility. Each manufacturer has to decide the amount of workload to be...