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CP
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Dimensioning an Inbound Call Center Using Constraint Programming
One of the critical problems in the call center industries is the staffing problem since they must face variable demands and because staff costs represent a major part of the cost...
Cyril Canon, Jean-Charles Billaut, Jean-Louis Bouq...
EOR
2006
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14 years 9 months ago
A multi-period machine assignment problem
In this paper, a multi-period assignment problem is studied that arises as part of a weekly planning problem at mail processing and distribution centers. These facilities contain ...
Xinhui Zhang, Jonathan F. Bard
EOR
2007
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14 years 9 months ago
Considering manufacturing cost and scheduling performance on a CNC turning machine
A well known industry application that allows controllable processing times is the manufacturing operations on CNC machines. For each turning operation as an example, there is a n...
Sinan Gurel, M. Selim Akturk
VLSISP
2002
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14 years 9 months ago
Minimizing Buffer Requirements under Rate-Optimal Schedule in Regular Dataflow Networks
Large-grain synchronous dataflow graphs or multi-rate graphs have the distinct feature that the nodes of the dataflow graph fire at different rates. Such multi-rate large-grain dat...
Ramaswamy Govindarajan, Guang R. Gao, Palash Desai
MFCS
2004
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Optimal Preemptive Scheduling for General Target Functions
We study the problem of optimal preemptive scheduling with respect to a general target function. Given n jobs with associated weights and m ≤ n uniformly related machines, one a...
Leah Epstein, Tamir Tassa