We describe the problem of scheduling the television broadcasts of the U.S. National Football League (NFL). Unlike traditional round-robin tournament scheduling, the NFL problem i...
Scheduling problems overall assume that it is possible to identify stable criteria definitions measuring the quality of alternatives. In real world problems however, this does not ...
This paper investigates the integration of the employee timetabling and production scheduling problems. At the first level, we manage a classical employee timetabling problem. At ...
We study the preemptive scheduling problem of a set of n jobs with release times and equal processing times on a single machine. The objective is to minimize the sum of the weighte...
This paper presents an enumerative approach for a sports league scheduling problem. This simple method can solve some instances involving a number T of teams up to 70 while the bes...