I. Survey Papers -- “A Critique of Project Planning with Constrained Resources” -- “Sequencing Research and the Industrial Scheduling Problem” -- II. Applications -- “The Engine Scheduling Problem in a Railway Network” — Abstract -- “Detail Scheduling Models and Systems” --...

This paper describes a complex scheduling problem taken from a hospital diagnostic testing center that schedules hundreds of patients in an open shop environment consisting of multiple facilities and multiple processors. This scheduling problem, known as the multiprocessor open shop (MPOS)...

The second part of the expository paper started with Elmaghraby, S. E. 1970. The theory of networks and management science. Part I. Management Sci. 17(1, September) 1-34.

In PERT-type networks, where activity times are random variables, the expected duration of the total project can be approximated by first substituting the expected values of the individual activities, and then evaluating the length of the critical path. This paper develops two improved...

An expository treatment of three network models most often encountered in Management Science applications: (i) The Shortest Path Problems, (ii) Flow Networks, and (iii) Activity Networks. In the first problem are discussed the shortest path between two specified nodes; the shortest distance...

This paper describes a production smoothing system which combines several known scheduling tools into an operational unit. The input to the system is forecasted customer demand; the outputs are the required production levels, size of labor force, planned overtime and expected inventories of...