Purpose: The main purpose of this article is to systematically review the papers published in
the period 2005-2020 about the integration of production, inventory and distribution activities …

Abstract Throughout its history, Operational Research has evolved to include methods,
models and algorithms that have been applied to a wide range of contexts. This …

Previous analysis suggested the opportunity to consider the preferences of different
stakeholders (hospital, patients, doctors and nurses) through the adoption of both patient …

We consider a flexible job shop scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup times
that incorporates heterogeneous machine operator qualifications by taking account of …

A practical nurse rostering problem, which arises at a ward of an Italian private hospital, is
considered. In this problem, it is required each month to assign shifts to the nursing staff …

The problem addressed in this paper belongs to the topic of order scheduling, in which
customer orders–composed of different individual jobs–are scheduled so the objective …

In this paper, we discuss scheduling problems for parallel batch processing machines,
incompatible job families, and an arbitrary regular sum objective. Only jobs of the same …

In a railway system, maintenance activities need to be continuously performed to ensure
safety and continued rail operations. In this framework, while on one hand unplanned …

In this paper, we address a variant of a batch scheduling problem with identical parallel
machines and non-anticipatory family setup times to minimize the total weighted completion …

This research focuses on solving a scheduling problem in a heat treatment line of a
multinational steel company. A bi-objective model is proposed to minimize the line total …