This paper considers the problem of bed rearrangement in hospitals and proposes some research tools to provide an effective and balanced rearrangement of beds. By studying the activity report of Habib Bourguiba Hospital, it was found that some departments have a shortage while others have a...

The classical scheduling literature considers many problems where a given set of jobs must be processed at minimum cost, subject to various resource constraints. The literature only considers the issue of revenue generation in a very limited way, by allowing a job to remain unprocessed and its...

This paper considers the coordination of pricing and scheduling decisions in a make-to-order environment. Following common industry practice, we assume knowledge of a deterministic demand function that is nonincreasing in price. We consider three alternative measures of scheduling cost: total...

This note shows that, for the combinatorial market goods defined by Wellman et al. (2001), there may not exist an optimal allocation that is in equilibrium. Moreover, this result holds even if the value of each processed job is independent of its completion time. The proposed algorithm for...