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Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) is a public and automated transport system in which a fleet of small driverless vehicles operate in order to transport passengers between a set of stations through a network of guided ways. Each customer is carried from...
In this paper, we address a real-world optimization problem; the scheduling of a Bank Information Technologies (IT) staff. This problem can be defined as the process of constructing optimized work schedules for staff. In a general sense, it requires...
The contribution of this paper to the job shop related literature is twofold. First, we provide an efficient way forf solving the job shop scheduling problem with release dates, delivery times and delayed precedence constraints. It is shown that the...
We investigate the single machine scheduling problem with job release dates and due dates, and multiple planned unavailability time periods. This problem arises in the context of machine scheduling with planned preventive maintenance and might be...
We propose an effective improvement of the well-known Jackson’s preemptive schedule lower bound for the single machine scheduling problem with heads and tails. The semi-preemptive scheduling concept roughly consists in reducing the preemption impact...