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WSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
A simulation based optimization algorithm for slack reduction and workforce scheduling
In an assembly line with high labor proportion, the workforce planning and scheduling is a very complex problem. At the background of increasing labor costs, it is very important ...
Daniel Noack, Oliver Rose
EOR
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Multicriteria tour planning for mobile healthcare facilities in a developing country
A multiobjective combinatorial optimization (MOCO) formulation for the following location-routing problem in healthcare management is given: For a mobile healthcare facility, a cl...
Karl Doerner, Axel Focke, Walter J. Gutjahr
ICALT
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Managing Personalized and Adapted Medical Learning Objects
Medical learning objects deviates from traditional notion of learning object in that it is always in a digital form and relates to medication. They may include text, images, sound...
Juha Puustjärvi, Leena Puustjärvi
SIAMJO
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
The Sample Average Approximation Method for Stochastic Discrete Optimization
In this paper we study a Monte Carlo simulation based approach to stochastic discrete optimization problems. The basic idea of such methods is that a random sample is generated and...
Anton J. Kleywegt, Alexander Shapiro, Tito Homem-d...
INFORMATICALT
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
An Improved Differential Evolution Scheme for the Solution of Large-Scale Unit Commitment Problems
This paper presents an improved differential evolution (IDE) method for the solution of large-scale unit commitment (UC) problems. The objective of the proposed scheme is to determ...
Chen-Sung Chang