Search Results - subject:"Scheduling problem"

Customer Scheduling in Large Service Systems Under Model Uncertainty

Sun, Xu; Abouee-Mehrizi, Hossein; Chai, Shiwei - 2022

Scheduling in the context of many-server queues has received a lot of attention. When there are many servers and multiple customer classes, it is common practice to make simplifying assumptions, resulting in a ``low-fidelity" model, hence potential model misspecification. Real-world data...

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Coordinated Seru Scheduling and Distribution Operation Problems with Dejong's Learning Effects

Zhang, Zhe; Song, Xiaoling; Gong, Xue; Yin, Yong - 2022

Motivated by the advantage of just-in-time philosophy, zero-inventory is common in many industries, especially the ones that need fast response with a short lifespan. Accordingly, this paper focuses on coordinated production scheduling and distribution operation problems considering DeJong’s...

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Interview Scheduling : An Integer Programming Approach

Braathen, Christian - 2022

This article provides a general meeting scheduling model to schedule en-masse interviews over multi-day events. Creating such meeting schedules is a complicated, time-consuming task that usually requires considerable manual planning when hundreds of meetings are involved and if the quality of...

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Megacompany Employee Churn Meets 401(k) Vesting Schedules : A Sabotage on Workers' Retirement Wealth

Prince, Samantha J. - 2022

Deliberate employee churn and the Great Resignation are two phrases that describe the latest change in work. Some employers, notably Amazon, deliberately churn employees to avoid a “march to mediocrity” by implementing appalling working conditions and policies that result in employees...

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Analysis of Real-Time Scheduling for Cyber-Physical Production Systems

Tan, Jaswin Zhi Ming; Wu, Zhe; Yap, Ken Shaun - 2022

The industrial internet of things (IIoT) enhances the capabilities of a production system by adding a cyber layer to it. Cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) capture and analyse production systems data to generate insights for decision making. This allows production systems to achieve...

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Schedule Inequity in the National Basketball Association

Bowman, Alan; Harmon, Oskar R.; Ashman, Thomas - 2022

Scheduling factors such as a visiting team playing a game back-to-back against a rested home team can affect the win probability of the teams for that game and potentially affect teams unevenly throughout the season. This study examines schedule inequity in the National Basketball Association...

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Hybrid Heuristic for Multi-Depot Static Bike Rebalancing And Collection Problem

Bai, Xue; Ma, Ning; Chin, Kwai-Sang; Zhou, Zhili - 2022

The bike rebalancing problem is one of the major operational challenges in the urban bike-sharing system which involves the redistribution of bikes to prevent stations from being empty or overloaded. This paper investigates a new bike rebalancing problem, which considers the collection of broken...

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A Column Generation Approach for Solving an Airport Ground Service Task Assignment & Sequencing Problem

Kumar, P. N. Ram; Qiannan, Tian; Govindan, Kannan - 2022

In this paper, we study a task assignment & sequencing problem in the context of airport ground handling services. A task represents a service performed by one or multiple ground crew with required qualifications and proficiency within a prescribed time. The problem is to assign tasks to all the...

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Computational Intelligence Based Pevs Aggregator Scheduling with Support for Photovoltaic Power Penetrated Distribution Grid Under Snow Conditions

Hashemi, Behzad; Taheri, Shamsodin; Cretu, Ana-Maria; … - 2022

This paper addresses the issue of optimal day-ahead scheduling of a plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) aggregator that participates in the electricity market and offers an out-of-market balancing service to the local renewable power penetrated distribution system in a snow-prone area. The proposed...

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Elective Surgery Sequencing and Scheduling under Uncertainty

Fu, Xiaojin; Qi, Jin; Yang, Chen; Ye, Han - 2022

We consider a surgery sequencing and scheduling problem with uncertain surgical durations in the context of an … procedure based on Benders Decomposition, offering exact solutions for the problem. When the sequence is given, the scheduling … problem is solvable in polynomial time. The framework can also accommodate a robust setting when the underlying probability …

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