Appointment scheduling with discrete random durations and applications

We study scheduling of jobs on a highly utilized resource when the processing durations are stochastic and there are significant underage (resource idle-time) and overage (job waiting and/or resource overtime) costs. Our work is motivated by surgery scheduling and physician appointments. We consider...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Begen, Mehmet Atilla
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/23332