The application of cellular manufacturing in batch-type environments is a well-known
manufacturing strategy that typically improves manufacturing efficiency by utilizing the …

When SIAM asked us to prepare a new edition of this book after less than three years from
publication, we expected a light duty. Just the correction of some typos and imprecisions …

Having reached the 50th (golden) anniversary of the publication of Kuhn's seminal article on
the solution of the classic assignment problem, it seems useful to take a look at the variety of …

In this study, a computerized nurse-scheduling model is developed. The model is
approached through a 0-1 linear goal program. It is adapted to Riyadh Al-Kharj hospital …

Owing to the increasing complexity of products and the specialization of enterprises,
production outsourcing has become a common practice in industrial manufacturing …

Responding to the demand by researchers and practitioners for a comprehensive reference,
Handbook of Industrial and Systems Engineering offers full and easy access to a wide range …

This paper introduces the problem of scheduling emergency room physicians. We
interviewed physicians from six hospitals in the greater Montreal, Canada area, in order to …

The efficient management of nursing personnel is of critical importance in a hospital's
environment comprising a vast share of the hospital's operational costs. The nurse …

One of the major challenges in the coordination of large, open, collaborative, and
commercial vehicle fleets is dynamic task allocation. Self‐concerned individually rational …

In this paper, we present a novel meta-heuristic technique for the nurse scheduling problem
(NSP). This well-known scheduling problem assigns nurses to shifts per day maximizing the …