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In this paper we investigate the problem of order batching for picker routing. Our approach is applicable to warehouses (storage areas) arranged in the standard rectangular grid layout, so with parallel aisles and two or more cross-aisles.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-03 Cristiano Arbex Valle , John E Beasley

In this work, we investigate the problem of order batching and picker routing in warehouse storage areas. These problems are known to be capital and labour intensive, and often contribute to a sizable fraction of warehouse operating costs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Wei Hao Khoong

Patient-to-room assignment (PRA) is a scheduling problem in decision support for hospitals. It consists of assigning patients to rooms according to certain objectives, e.g., avoiding transfers and respecting single-room requests. This work…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Tabea Brandt , Christina Büsing , Felix Engelhardt

This paper introduces an integrated lot sizing and scheduling problem inspired from a real-world application in off-the-road tire industry. This problem considers the assignment of different items on parallel machines with complex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Cyril Koch , Taha Arbaoui , Yassine Ouazene , Farouk Yalaoui , Humbert De Brunier , Nicolas Jaunet , Antoine De Wulf

In this study, we provided a scheduling procedure which is a combination of machine learning and mathematical programming that minimizes the waiting time of higher priority outpatients. Outpatients who request for appointment in healthcare…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 Niloofar Yousefi , Farhad Hasankhani , Mahsa Kiani , Nooshin Yousefi

We study the strategic decision-making problem of assigning time windows to customers in the context of vehicle routing applications that are affected by operational uncertainty. This problem, known as the Time Window Assignment Vehicle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Anirudh Subramanyam , Akang Wang , Chrysanthos E. Gounaris

We consider a Persistent Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (PISR) routing problem, which includes collecting data from a set of specified task locations and delivering that data to a control station. Each task is assigned a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-01 Satyanarayana G. Manyam , Steven Rasmussen , David W. Casbeer , Krishnamoorthy Kalyanam , Suresh Manickam

Effective agent shift scheduling is crucial for businesses, especially in the Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) industry, to ensure seamless operations and fulfill employee needs. Most studies utilizing mathematical model-based solutions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Sanalkumar K , Koushik Dey , Swati Meena

The Capacitated Vehicle Routing problem is to find a minimum-cost set of tours that collectively cover clients in a graph, such that each tour starts and ends at a specified depot and is subject to a capacity bound on the number of clients…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Amariah Becker , Philip N. Klein , Aaron Schild

We study web and mobile applications that are used to schedule advance service, from medical appointments to restaurant reservations. We model them as online weighted bipartite matching problems with non-stationary arrivals. We propose new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Xinshang Wang , Van-Anh Truong , David Bank

In this research, a new variant of the vehicle routing problem with time windows is addressed. The nodes associated with the customers are related to each other through AND/OR precedence constraints. The objective is minimizing the total…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-04 Mina Roohnavazfar , Seyed Hamid Reza Pasandideh , Roberto Tadei

This study examines a home healthcare scheduling and routing problem (HHSRP) with a lunch break requirement. This problem especially consists of lunch break constraints for caregivers in addition to other typical features of the HHSRP in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Ömer Öztürkoğlu , Gökberk Özsakallı , Syed Shah Sultan Mohiuddin Qadri

The Operating Room Scheduling (ORS) problem is the task of assigning patients to operating rooms, taking into account different specialties, lengths and priority scores of each planned surgery, operating room session durations, and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Carmine Dodaro , Giuseppe Galatà , Muhammad Kamran Khan , Marco Maratea , Ivan Porro

The recently introduced online Minimum Peak Appointment Scheduling (MPAS) problem is a variant of the online bin-packing problem that allows for deferred decision making. Specifically, it allows for the problem to be split into an online…

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This paper focuses on communication, radar search, and tracking task scheduling in multi-cell integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks under quality-of-service constraints. We propose a medium access control framework that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 João Henrique Inacio de Souza , Fabio Saggese , Kun Chen-Hu , Petar Popovski

We consider emergent situations that require transporting individuals from their locations to a facility using a single capacitated vehicle, where transportation duration has a negative impact on the individuals. A dispatcher determines…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Bahar Cavdar , Joseph Geunes , Xiaofeng Nie , Yue Wang

Inventory management, vehicle routing, and delivery scheduling decisions are simultaneously considered in the context of the inventory routing problem. This paper focuses on the continuous-time version of this problem where, unlike its more…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Akang Wang , Xiandong Li , Jeffrey E. Arbogast , Zachary Wilson , Chrysanthos E. Gounaris

The multi Vehicle Routing Problem with Pickup and Delivery with Time Windows is a challenging version of the Vehicle Routing Problem. In this paper, by embedding many complex assignment routing constraints through constructing a multi…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-07 Monirehalsadat Mahmoudi , Junhua Chen , Xuesong Zhou

In Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS), reflective elements (REs) are typically configured as a single array, but as RE numbers increase, this approach incurs high overhead for optimal configuration. Subarray grouping provides an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Yizhu Wang , Zhou Zhang , Saman Atapattu , Marco Di Renzo

Recommender systems rely heavily on increasing computation resources to improve their business goal. By deploying computation-intensive models and algorithms, these systems are able to inference user interests and exhibit certain ads or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-04 Xun Yang , Yunli Wang , Cheng Chen , Qing Tan , Chuan Yu , Jian Xu , Xiaoqiang Zhu