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 ...

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES Physician staff of academic hospitals today practice in several geographic locations including their main hospital. This is referred to as the extended campus. With extended campuses expanding, the growing complexity of a single division's schedule means that a naive approach to scheduling compromises revenue. Moreover, it may provide an unfair allocation of individual ...

According to recent estimates, 36 percent of Virginia’s regular public high schools operate on a 4x4 block schedule and 41 percent operate on an A/B alternating day schedule. This brief provides an overview of both of these models, highlights the potential benefits and challenges of block scheduling, and summarizes the research base. To date, studies examining the impact of block scheduling on ...

No. 0070482 A Stochastic Overbooking Model for Outpatient Clinical Scheduling with No-Shows Kumar Muthuraman, Mark Lawley School of Industrial Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906 [email protected], (765) 494-5416, [email protected], (765) 494-5415 POMS 18th Annual Conference Dallas, Texas, U.S.A., May 4 to May 7, 2007 We formulate a stocha...

Spacecraft autonomy has the potential for effecting significant cost savings in mission operations by reducing the need for dedicated ground staff. In an autonomous operating mode, operators will communicate only highlevel goals and deadlines directly to the spacecraft. The spacecraft will then perform its own planning and scheduling, decomposing a goal into a set of sub-goals to be achieved wi...

Due to population aging, the need for home care has increased. This leads not only staff shortages, but also planning challenges organizations. Rescheduling visits places a strain on everyone involved in provision. Above all, it is difficulty care-service users and their relatives that way of getting information about changes call organization. These additional phonecalls add stress workers. pa...

Temporary employment is a need to meet periodically increasing demand. It arranged for limited number of days and its service quality output observed instantly. These make the planning phase complicated. In process, priority businesses demand regulate workload according terms period. Solving periodic increase in by providing permanent can cause face costs arising from excess long term. Generall...

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS proposed to reduce the vertical transmission of HIV from ∼72,200 to ∼8300 newly infected children by 2015 in South Africa (SA). However, cultural, infrastructural, and socio-economic barriers hinder the implementation of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) protocol, and research on potential solutions to address these barrier...