In a traditional rail-freight hump yard, a huge number of freight cars are perpetually shunted to form outbound trains. In order to transport each car to its destination, the inbound trains are decoupled and disassembled into individual cars, which are then moved to one of the several...

A problem is studied in which several non-cooperating clients compete for earlier execution of their jobs in a processing sequence of a single service provider in order to minimize job completion time costs. The clients can move their jobs earlier in a given sequence. They are assumed not to...

Project control has been a research topic since decades that attracts both academics and practitioners. Project control systems indicate the direction of change in preliminary planning variables compared with actual performance. In case their current project performance deviates from the planned...