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Recently, a variety of constraint programming and Boolean satisfiability approaches to scheduling problems have been introduced. They have in common the use of relatively simple propagation mechanisms and an adaptive way to focus on the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-28 Diarmuid Grimes , Emmanuel Hebrard

Our research has shown that schedules can be built mimicking a human scheduler by using a set of rules that involve domain knowledge. This chapter presents a Bayesian Optimization Algorithm (BOA) for the nurse scheduling problem that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Jingpeng Li , Uwe Aickelin

Cutting and packing problems are present in many, at first glance unconnected, areas, therefore it's beneficial to have a good understanding of their underlying structure, to select proper techniques for finding solutions. Cutting and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Szymon Wróbel

We study a scheduling problem in which jobs may be split into parts, where the parts of a split job may be processed simultaneously on more than one machine. Each part of a job requires a setup time, however, on the machine where the job…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Frans Schalekamp , Rene Sitters , Suzanne van der Ster , Leen Stougie , Victor Verdugo , Anke van Zuylen

A queue is required when a service provider is not able to handle jobs arriving over the time. In a highly flexible and dynamic environment, some jobs might demand for faster execution at run-time especially when the resources are limited…

Performance · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Yash Gupta , Kamalakar Karlapalem

We propose combined allocation, assignment, sequencing, and scheduling problems under uncertainty involving multiple operation rooms (ORs), anesthesiologists, and surgeries, as well as methodologies for solving such problems. Specifically,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-15 Man Yiu Tsang , Karmel S. Shehadeh , Frank E. Curtis , Beth Hochman , Tricia E. Brentjens

This paper presents PyJobShop, an open-source Python library for solving scheduling problems with constraint programming. PyJobShop provides an easy-to-use modeling interface that supports a wide variety of scheduling problems, including…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Leon Lan , Joost Berkhout

We present a heuristic algorithm for solving the problem of scheduling plans of tasks. The plans are ordered vectors of tasks, and tasks are basic operations carried out by resources. Plans are tied by temporal, precedence and resource…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Davide Andrea Guastella

In this work, the online printing shop scheduling problem introduced in (Lunardi et al., Mixed Integer Linear Programming and Constraint Programming Models for the Online Printing Shop Scheduling Problem, Computers & Operations Research, to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Willian T. Lunardi , Ernesto G. Birgin , Débora P. Ronconi , Holger Voos

Healthcare systems face increasing pressure to allocate limited nursing resources efficiently while accounting for skill heterogeneity, patient acuity, staff fatigue, and continuity of care. Traditional optimization and heuristic scheduling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Harsha Koduri

The talent scheduling problem is a simplified version of the real-world film shooting problem, which aims to determine a shooting sequence so as to minimize the total cost of the actors involved. In this article, we first formulate the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Zizhen Zhang , Hu Qin , Xiaocong Liang , Andrew Lim

We consider a distributed computing network consisting of a master and multiple workers processing tasks of different types. The master is running multiple applications. Each application stochastically generates real-time jobs with a strict…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Yu-Pin Hsu , Yu-Chih Huang , Shin-Lin Shieh

A common issue for companies is that the volume of product orders may at times exceed the production capacity. We formally introduce two novel problems dealing with the question which orders to discard or postpone in order to meet certain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Patrick Rodler , Erich Teppan

The ever-growing processing power of supercomputers in recent decades enables us to explore increasing complex scientific problems. Effective scheduling these jobs is crucial for individual job performance and system efficiency. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Yuping Fan

This paper examines scheduling problem denoted as $P|seq, ser|C_{max}$ in Graham's notation; in other words, scheduling of tasks on parallel identical machines ($P$) with sequence-dependent setups ($seq$) each performed by one of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Vilém Heinz , Antonín Novák , Marek Vlk , Zdeněk Hanzálek

Scheduling plays an important role in automated production. Its impact can be found in various fields such as the manufacturing industry, the service industry and the technology industry. A scheduling problem (NP-hard) is a task of finding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Hongjian Zhou , Boyang Gu , Chenghao Jin

This paper addresses the incompatible case of parallel batch scheduling, where compatible jobs belong to the same family, and jobs from different families cannot be processed together in the same batch. The state-of-the-art constraint…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Jorge A. Huertas , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Project scheduling in manufacturing environments often requires flexibility in terms of the selection and the exact length of alternative production activities. Moreover, the simultaneous scheduling of multiple lots is mandatory in many…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Viktoria A. Hauder , Andreas Beham , Sebastian Raggl , Sophie N. Parragh , Michael Affenzeller

We address the tactical fixed job scheduling problem with spread-time constraints. In such a problem, there are a fixed number of classes of machines and a fixed number of groups of jobs. Jobs of the same group can only be processed by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-12 Shuyu Zhou , Xiandong Zhang , Bo Chen , Steef van de Velde

The scheduling problem is a key class of optimization problems and has various kinds of applications both in practical and theoretical scenarios. In the scheduling problem, probabilistic analysis is a basic tool for investigating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Daiki Suruga