assign participants to sections of multiple-offering sessions. A heuristic procedure that simultaneously solves both parts is … significantly improved participant satisfaction and equity when compared with traditional conference- and class-scheduling …

This paper deals with an identical multiprocessor, multiproduct, lot-size scheduling problem under deterministic … mathematical formulation for the problem is given. A heuristic procedure, which extends the Common Cycle approach for a single …

of the three environmental factors, the performance of nine scheduling rules are evaluated using simulation. Some of the …This paper considers various rules for scheduling appointments for medical clinic outpatients and investigates their …. Theoretically, an appropriate scheduling rule can be identified only if one knows the values of these parameters and the ratio …

alternative distributed decision-making approaches for patient scheduling tasks. The results indicate that there are important and … interplay between technology and organizational structure are questionable. Furthermore, organization-specific simulation is …

improvements, all arising from part family-oriented processing. These insights are verified through a simulation comparison of five …-oriented scheduling rule are used. …

of such systems makes simulation and heuristics essential in studying them. In this paper we develop some theoretical … and help greatly reduce the simulation effort needed to study them. These structural results also provide the basis for … developing heuristics to deal effectively with particular cases. Reversibility deals with certain permutations of the machines …

Pivot and Complement is a heuristic for finding approximate solutions to 0-1 programming problems. It uses the fact …

services and is an excellent heuristic for general service times. …