Vaccination is one of the most important and successful public health endeavors in human history, profoundly reducing mortalities caused by infectious diseases. In the United States, the comprehensive success of large scale pediatric immunization programs results from the collaboration of an...

This paper presents a Branch, Bound, and Remember (BB&R) exact algorithm using the Cyclic Best First Search (CBFS) exploration strategy for solving the <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$${1|ST_{sd}|\sum T_{i}}$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> scheduling problem, a single machine scheduling problem with sequence dependent setup times where the objective is...</equationsource></inlineequation>

In 2002, several factors resulted in pediatric vaccine manufacturers not being able to produce a sufficient number of vaccines to vaccinate all the children in the United States according to the Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule. The resulting vaccine supply shortage resulted in...