Università Roma Tre

Course programme
1. Introduction to Multi-Criteria Decision Making for Public Service Management Problems
2. Optimization in Project Planning and Scheduling
3. Disjunctive Programming: Scheduling and Routing Models, (Meta)Exact /Heuristic Algorithms
4. Reservations Systems and Interval Scheduling
5. Timetabling with Operator or Tooling Constraints
6. Scheduling and Timetabling in Sport Tournaments
7. Scheduling Network Television Programs
8. Transportation Problems: Tanker/Aircraft/Train Coordination, Scheduling and Routing
9. Decision Support Systems for Real-Time Dispatching of Operations
10. Workforce Scheduling: Days-Off Scheduling, Shift Scheduling, Cyclic Staffing
11. Airline Crew Scheduling
12. Discrete Location Problems
13. Water and Air Quality Management
14. Health Care Delivery

Michael L. Pinedo (Author) “Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services”, Springer Series in Operations Research, Edition 2005
S.M. Pollock, M.H. Rothkopf, A. Barnett (Editors), “Operations Research and the Public Sector”, Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science, Volume 6, Edition 1994
Material given by the professor via the moodle page of the course, including lecture slides, scientific papers, optimization software and tutorials