Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Abstract—Scheduling often involves, in addition to optimization, continuous decision makingwherecontinuity in thesolutions produced is important. Furthermore, substantial diversity in the nature of different scheduling problems exists. In this paper we present a view of scheduling as decision support for continuous planning, and introduce a ...

Operating rooms have become the most important areas in hospitals because of the scarcity and cost of resources. The present study investigates operating room scheduling and rescheduling considering the priority of surgical patients in a specialized hospital. The ultimate purpose of scheduling is to minimize patient waiting time, surgeon idle time between surgeries, and penalties for deviations...

cloud computing refers to services that run in a distributed network and are accessible through common internet protocols. it merges a lot of physical resources and offers them to users as services according to service level agreement. therefore, resource management alongside with task scheduling has direct influence on cloud networks’ performance and efficiency. presenting a proper scheduling ...