A recurring problem in project management involves the allocation of scarce resources to the individual jobs comprising the project. In many situations such as audit-staff scheduling, timetabling, and course scheduling, the resources correspond to individuals (skilled labour). This naturally leads to an assignment-type project scheduling problem, i.e. a project has to be performed by assigning ...

Application areas that utilize the concept of IoT can be broadened to healthcare or remote monitoring areas. In this paper, a remote monitoring system for patients at home in IoT environments is proposed, constructed, and evaluated through several experiments. To make it operable in IoT environments, a protocol conversion scheme between ISO/IEEE 11073 protocol and oneM2M protocol, and a Multicl...

0 Abstract High surgical bed occupancy levels often result in heightened staff stress, frequent surgical cancellations and long surgical wait times. This congestion is in part attributable to surgical scheduling practices which often focus on the efficient use of operating rooms but ignore resulting downstream bed utilization. This paper describes a transparent and portable approach to improve ...

Weather affects the work of air traffic controllers, however, for staff scheduling in Remote Tower Centers (RTCs) it has not been taken into account. We study impact various weather phenomena on controller (ATCO) taskload through structured interviews with ATCOs. deduce taskload-driven factors and corresponding thresholds intensity at several Swedish airports. To account uncertainty prediction,...

The Technician Routing and Scheduling Problem (TRSP) consists in routing staff to serve requests for service, taking into account time windows, skills, tools, and spare parts. Typical applications include maintenance operations and staff routing in telecoms, public utilities, and in the health care industry. In this paper, we present a formal definition of the TRSP, discuss its relation with th...

While research has shown the important role fathers play in young children's lives, fathers are often not involved in Early Intervention services. This literature review will examine father involvement in early childhood programs in the United States, father involvement in early childhood programs in other countries, and staff perceptions of father involvement in early childhood programs. Findi...

This paper describes the pilot of a Short Messaging Service (SMS) technology in the higher education environment dynamic two-way ‘push-pull’ transfer of information between students and academics. Assessment results and reminders were pushed to students and access was provided to information relating to their subject schedules and assessment performance. Both qualitative and quantitative data w...

The Crew Rostering Problem considers the assignment of the crew staff to a set of pairings covering all the scheduled flights so that operations costs are minimized while its solution must meet hard constraints resulting from the safety regulations of Civil Aviation as well as from the airlines’ internal agreements. Another goal is of the highest interest for airlines: since the overall satisfa...

Surgery schedules are subject to disruptions due to duration uncertainty, patient punctuality, surgery cancellation, surgical emergencies and recovery resource availability. Such disruptions may result in inefficient utilization of medical resources, suboptimal patient care and patient and staff dissatisfaction. To alleviate these issues, we propose a proactive-reactive surgery scheduling metho...

AIM To review research in the literature on nursing shift scheduling / rescheduling, and to report key issues identified in a consultation exercise with managers in four English National Health Service trusts to inform the development of mathematical tools for rescheduling decision-making. BACKGROUND Shift rescheduling is unrecognised as an everyday time-consuming management task with differe...