Background: Scheduling the arrival of external trucks in container terminals is a critical operational decision that faces both terminal managers and trucking companies. This issue is crucial for both stakeholders since the random arrival of trucks causes congestion in the terminals and extended...

This paper presents the relations of optimized combination with traditional combination and permutation. Combinatorics is a collection of several computing techniques used in science and management. In this research paper, new results on both combination and permutation are introduced for the...

Struggling to attract talent, companies are scrambling to offer schedule flexibility. Analyzing data from more than 44 million job-application decisions across occupations and companies from a major job-search platform, we investigate how offering or requiring worktime flexibility affects worker...

We study a market with competition in schedules, such as in asset auctions or wholesale electricity markets, with boundedly rational sellers that partially neglect the informational content of the price. Using the cursed equilibrium concept, we find that the unique symmetric linear equilibrium...

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...

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...

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...