Accurate prediction of medical operation times is of crucial importance for cost efficient operation room planning in … about 1,250 surgical operations in 2009 is improved by up to more than 15 percent as compared to current planning procedures. …

maintenance manager in his planning job. We present a fast approach that allows interactive planning by showing how shifts from …A maintenance activity carried out on a technical system often involves a system-dependent set-up cost that is the same … for all maintenance activities carried out on that system. Grouping activities thus saves costs since execution of a group …

maintenance optimization models which covers almost all models used in practice. For the class of unimodal finite-valued marginal …