Because of international competition, the development of new technologies and the increase of production and energy costs, enterprises must improve their supply chains and change their ways of doing business. They also have to collaborate with their suppliers, distributors and retailers in order...

For a profit allocation game, one key issue is to find a fair allocation of profit among its players. In this paper, a proportional egalitarian core solution is proposed, which defines in the core of a game an allocation that takes account of each player's contribution to the grand coalition....

This paper deals with models, relaxations and algorithms for an integrated approach to vehicle and crew scheduling. We discuss potential benefits of integration and provide an overview of the literature, which considers mainly partial integration. Our approach is new in the sense that we can...

This paper deals with a practical application of an integrated approach to vehicle and crew scheduling, that we have developed previously. Computational results have shown that our approach can be applied to problems of practical size. However, application of the approach to the actual problems...

This paper addresses the surgery operation scheduling problem. Three types of resources are considered: transporters, operating rooms and recovery beds. The patient is first transported from the ward to the operating theatre, is operated on in an operating room and then transferred immediately...

This paper addresses the surgery operation scheduling problem. Three types of resources are considered: transporters, operating rooms and recovery beds. The patient is first transported from the ward to the operating theatre, is operated on in an operating room and then transferred immediately...

A production planning problem with stochastic demands is considered in this paper. The problem is to determine over a given time horizon the production quantity of each intermediate/final product at each facility of finite capacity so that a system-wide total cost is minimised while meeting...

A production planning problem with stochastic demands is considered in this paper. The problem is to determine over a given time horizon the production quantity of each intermediate/final product at each facility of finite capacity so that a system-wide total cost is minimised while meeting...

The coordination of just-in-time production and transportation in a network of partially independent facilities to guarantee timely delivery to distributed customers is one of the most challenging aspects of supply chain management. From the theoretical perspective, the timely...

Advanced Business Process Management (BPM) tools enable the decomposition of previously integrated and often ill-defined processes into re-usable process modules. These process modules can subsequently be distributed on the Internet over a variety of many different actors, each with their own...