Constraint programming is a powerful paradigm for solving combinatorial search problems
that draws on a wide range of techniques from artificial intelligence, computer science …

This book is an outgrowth of an earlier text that appeared in 1999 under the title “Operations
Scheduling with Applications in Manufacturing and Services”, coauthored with **uli Chao …

Scheduling plays an important role in many different service industries. In this paper we
provide an overview of some of the more important scheduling problems that appear in the …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews that number of operations research (OR) methods
have found their way into constraint programming (CP). This development is entirely natural …

This paper presents our investigations on a hybrid constraint programming based column
generation (CP–CG) approach to nurse rostering problems. We present a complete model to …

Kurzfassung Die Planung von Bodenpersonal an Flughäfen beinhaltet eine Reihe
anspruchsvoller Optimierungsprobleme. Das Arbeitsaufkommen für Abfertigungsdienste …

Abstract We describe a Constraint Programming model for the Tail Assignment problem in
airline planning. Previous solution methods for this problem aim at optimality rather than …

Tail Assignment is the problem of assigning flight legs to aircraft while satisfying all
operational constraints, and optimizing some objective function. In this article, we present a …

Modellierung und Optimierung des B2C-Tourenplanungsproblems mit alternativen
Lieferorten und -zeiten Page 1 Wissenschaftliche Berichte des Institutes für Fördertechnik …

Producing work schedules for airline crew normally results in individually different
schedules. Some airlines do however want to give the same schedule to groups of people …