This paper considers a parallel-machine scheduling problem with machine maintenance. There are unavailable periods on each of the first k machines, and the remaining m - k machines are always available, where 1 [less-than-or-equals, slant] k [less-than-or-equals, slant] m is an...

In this paper, we study the problem of minimizing the maximum total completion time per machine on m parallel and identical machines. We prove that the problem is strongly NP-hard if m is a part of the input. When m is a given number, a pseudo-polynomial time dynamic programming is proposed. We...

The Satisfactory Partition problem asks for deciding if a given graph has a partition of its vertex set into two nonempty parts such that each vertex has at least as many neighbors in its part as in the other part. This problem was introduced by Gerber and Kobler [M. Gerber, D. Kobler,...

In many rural areas in Germany pupils on the way to school are a large if not the largest group of customers in public transport. If all schools start more or less at the same time then the bus companies need a high number of vehicles to serve the customer peak in the morning rush hours. In this...