Generating a regular season schedule is a demanding task for any sports league. In Europe, the creation of a suitable schedule for every national top soccer league not only has to address numerous conflicting inner-league requirements and preferences. Additionally, the games of the European Cup...

The staff scheduling problem in the retail business is considered for which a new mathematical model and new solution methods are introduced. The problem is formalized as a set covering type problem. Columns represent feasible weekly working time patterns of one sales clerk. Rows correspond to...

Lufthansa Technical Training GmbH (LIT) performs training courses for Lufthansa AG as well as for several other international airlines. Courses of about 670 different types are offered of which several hundred take place each year. The course scheduling problem faced by LTT is to develop a...

Several well-known and well-researched problem fields, such as school scheduling or university scheduling, reside in the realm of educational scheduling. Recently, some new course scheduling problems have begun to draw attention, which turn out to sport substantially more complex requirements...

Dieser Beitrag ist der Zeit- und Ressourcenplanung der fliegerischen Theorieausbildung bei der Lufthansa Flight Training GmbH (LFT) gewidmet, Gemeinsamkeiten mit ähnlichen Problemen anderer Schulungsanbieter veranlaßten uns, diese als Elemente eines eigenständigen Problemfeldes zu betrachten,...