This article covers the topic of planning and organization of work, which is one of the biggest problems is to establish the most appropriate allocations between human and technical resources, according to the characteristics that define and characterize each individual. These adjustments to...

The evolution of technologies, coupled with the constant and fast growth of mobile communication network structures, has promoted the development of technological solutions in different business sectors, particularly in manufacturing companies. To help the companies to become and/or remain more...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to provide a decision support tool to deal with the problem of seting priorites among patients competing for limited health care resources. Limited resources and unlimited demands prevent health-care services to be provided to all those in need. This became...

Given a finite set of spheres of different sizes, we study the three-dimensional Strip Packing Problem (3D-SPP) as well as the three-dimensional Knapsack Problem (3D-KP). The 3D-SPP asks for a placement of all spheres within a cuboidal strip of fixed width and height so that the variable length...