To solve the technician scheduling problem, this paper establishes a technician scheduling model considering the task release time, and designs a branch delimitation algorithm to solve the problem accurately by fully utilizing each technician's skills and allocating limited human resources to...

The geographical dispersion of collaborative factories may provide the cost-saving potential for manufacturers and lead them to easier fit the global markets. On the other hand, in such networks of factories, coordination is very important for the just-in-time delivery of orders. This study...

This paper investigates single machine scheduling problems with release time and random processing time, where the release time can be either deterministic or random. The objective is to determine a scheduling sequence that performs well in terms of out-of-sample performance. To achieve this, we...