In this paper we explain an estimation function for the crew scheduling problem in the coach transportation domain. Thanks to this function we obtain an estimation that is very clo...
We consider on-line scheduling of unit time jobs on a single machine with job-dependent penalties. The jobs arrive on-line (one by one) and can be either accepted and scheduled, o...
A central question in designing server farms today is how to efficiently provision the number of servers to extract the best performance under unpredictable demand patterns while ...
Anshul Gandhi, Varun Gupta, Mor Harchol-Balter, Mi...
The timetabling problem consists in scheduling a sequence of lectures between teachers and students in a prefixed period of time (typically a week), satisfying a set of constraints...
This paper considers the problem of scheduling two-operation non-preemptable jobs on two identical semiautomatic machines. A single server is available to carry out the first (or ...