This paper describes an employee scheduling system for retail outlets; it is a constraint-based system that exploits … deterministic scheduling package, which has been used at several outlets in Switzerland. …

of performance-based logistics (PBL) has increased. PBL represents a class of business strategies that converts the …-based approaches to evaluate how a supplier and customer will engage in a performance based logistics arrangement where spares …

to charge a price premium. This paper investigates the effects of different pricing schemes for a Third Party Logistics …. In a price- and time-sensitive logistics market, we derive the optimal quotations that should be made for price and … logistics market parameters, we show that charging according to an order’s time of arrival is not necessarily the best pricing …

scheduling problem where conventional and photovoltaic sources of energy are scheduled to be delivered to satisfy energy demand …

downlinking often becomes the bottleneck in the efficiency of the whole system. In this paper we address the downlink scheduling … problem for Canada׳s Earth observing SAR satellite, RADARSAT-2. Being an applied problem, downlink scheduling is characterised …

MILP – (mixed integer linear programming) for scheduling operations in microgrids connected to the national grid. We allow …