This paper surveys a large variety of mathematical models and up-to-date solution techniques developed for solving a general flight gate scheduling problem that deals with assigning different aircraft activities (arrival, departure and intermediate parking) to distinct aircraft stands or gates....

Based upon an empirical survey, an hierarchical framework for audit-staff scheduling has been developed which distinguishes between a tactical, a tactical-operational and an operational level. In our paper we investigate the tactical-operational level. A binary optimization model is formulated,...

Component commonality - the use of the same version of a component across multiple products - is being increasingly considered as a promising way to offer high external variety while retaining low internal variety in operations. However, increasing commonality has both positive and negative cost...