This paper describes an employee scheduling system for retail outlets; it is a constraint-based system that exploits forecasts and stochastic techniques to generate schedules meeting the demand for sales personnel. Uncertain scenarios due to fluctuating demand are taken into account to develop a...

In this study, a static single machine scheduling problem is investigated, where processing times are stochastic, due dates are deterministic and inserted idle time is allowed. Two objective functions are simultaneously taken into account, minimization of mean completion time and minimization of...

The main thrust of this study is the operational scheduling of the continuous coal handling and blending processes when considering multiple, and sometimes conflicting, objectives. A widely applicable generic goal programming model is proposed. Furthermore, assumptions regarding the certainty of...

The main thrust of this study is the operational scheduling of the continuous coal handling and blending processes when considering multiple, and sometimes conflicting, objectives. A widely applicable generic goal programming model is proposed. Furthermore, assumptions regarding the certainty of...