This paper describes a spreadsheet model that was constructed to replace the manual assignment of medical residents in radiology to the on-call and emergency rotations at the University of Vermont's College of Medicine. It was created by a group of MBA students taking a Managements Science...

We consider a problem where a set of objects possessing multiple attributes must be partitioned into a certain number of groups so that the groups are as balanced as possible with respect to the number of objects possessing each attribute. This multi-criteria decision problem arises in a variety...