Scheduling is the process of devising or designing a procedure for a particular objective, specifying the sequence or time for each item in the procedure. Qpical scheduling problems are railway time-tabling, project scheduling, production scheduling, and scheduling computer systems as in flexible manufacturing systems and multiprocessor scheduling. Further, there are a number of related problem...

BACKGROUND Patient no-shows in outpatient delivery systems remain problematic. The negative impacts include underutilized medical resources, increased healthcare costs, decreased access to care, and reduced clinic efficiency and provider productivity. OBJECTIVE To develop an evidence-based predictive model for patient no-shows, and thus improve overbooking approaches in outpatient settings to...

The scheduling of generalized pinwheel task systems is considered. It is shown that pinwheel scheduling is closely related to the fair scheduling of periodic task systems. This relationship is exploited to obtain new scheduling algorithms for generalized pinwheel task systems. When compared to traditional pinwheel scheduling algorithms, these new algorithms are both more efficient from a runtim...

the aim of this paper is to study a multi-product, multi-period production systems in a hybrid flow shop so that lot-sizing and scheduling will be detemined simultaneously. a new mixed-integer programming model is proposed to formulate the studied problem. the objective function in this investigation includes the total cost of production, inventory and external supply. in the case of not satisf...

making a rational decision about the free production capacity of a firm requires accurate and comprehensive information in different fields such as unscheduled time of the machines, materials or other required resources status in the firm and the related supply chain. in this study, we try to achieve the needed information through integrating advanced available-to-promise mechanism with schedul...

A Scheduling system shall support the human scheduler in his daily work in creating and revising schedules of the production. Several criteria influence the requirements for such a system, e.g., the area of production and the preferences of the producing company as well as the need for presentation of specific information and sophisticated scheduling algorithms. Most of the existing scheduling ...

Alternative medicine in Bangladesh context means Unani/Ayurvedic and Homeopathic medicine. Government recognizes and patronizes allopathic (modern and western) medicine. This system through Government Institutions viz. hospitals and health care centres can offer services to only about 30% people. The other two systems (Unani/Ayurvedic and Homeopathic) can serve 50-60% people. Limited health man...

We survey scheduling algorithms proposed for tolerating permanent and transient failures in real-time embedded systems. These algorithms attempt to provide low-cost solutions to fault tolerance, graceful performance degradation, and load shedding in such systems by exploiting tradeoffs between space and/or time redundancy, timing accuracy, and quality of service. We place fault-tolerant schedul...

Real-time systems and networks are of increasing importance in many applications, including automated factories, telecommunication systems, defense systems, and space systems. This book introduces the concepts and state-of-the-art research developments of resource management in real-time systems and networks. Unlike other texts in the field, it covers the entire spectrum of issues in resource m...