Given a set of timetabled bus trips, transport companies are faced with the challenge finding feasible driver schedule that covers all trips and abides by various labor union regulations. The regulations primarily concerned providing sufficient breaks for drivers during day. Practical limitations in city network enforce to travel cars between stops have breaks. Transport limited number cars, kn...

I HE J. H. Ames School, a labora tory school at Wisconsin State University in River Falls, completes a third year of use of hand-designed modular scheduling this year. Planning and implementation of this mode of education involved 100 students, grades six through nine. Instructional re sources and building facilities available dur ing this period could be considered adequate to superior, but we...

This paper presents a new model for project portfolio selection, paying specific attention to competence development. The model seeks to maximize a weighted average of economic gains from projects and strategic gains from the increment of desirable competencies. As a sub-problem, scheduling and staff assignment for a candidate set of selected projects must also be optimized. We provide a nonlin...

This paper addresses a decision problem related to simultaneously scheduling the tasks in a project and assigning the staff to these tasks, taking into account that a task can be performed only by employees with certain skills, and that the length of each task depends on the number of employees assigned. This type of problems usually appears in service companies, where both tasks scheduling and...

When scheduling its audit-staff, the management of an auditing firm encompasses a number of different decisions which differ markedly in terms of organizational echelon involved, length of the planning horizon and the planning periods, degree of aggregation of the audit tasks, degree of detail of the required information, and decision objective. We outline an hierarchical planning approach for ...

We address a real-world optimization problem: the scheduling of a Bank Information Technologies (IT) staff. This problem can be defined as the process of constructing optimized work schedules for staff. In a general sense, it requires the allocation of suitably qualified staff to specific shifts to meet the demands for services of an organization while observing workplace regulations and attemp...

This study was designed guided by the Model for Improvement framework to reduce waiting times and visit duration in the intravitreal therapy clinic, while improving patient and staff experience. In our aim to provide good quality, patient-centred care and constantly improve, we optimised the appointment profile and patient flow. We involved a multidisciplinary team (one consultant, junior docto...