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. …

A railway system needs a substantial amount of maintenance. To prevent unexpected breakdowns as much as possible …, preventive maintenance is required. In this paper we discuss the Preventive Maintenance Scheduling Problem (PMSP), where (short …

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