Physician scheduling is the assignment of physicians to perform different duties in the hospital timetable. In this paper, the goals are to satisfy as many physicians’ preferences and duty requirements as possible while ensuring optimum usage of available resources. We present a mathematical programming model to represent the problem as a bi-objective optimization problem. Three different metho...

Online allocation problems have been widely studied due to their numerous practical applications (particularly to Internet advertising), as well as considerable theoretical interest. The main challenge in such problems is making assignment decisions in the face of uncertainty about future input; effective algorithms need to predict which constraints are most likely to bind, and learn the balanc...

The crew cost constitutes 20% of the direct operating in airline operations after aircraft fuel cost. Effective scheduling can save tens millions dollars to airlines and result low-cost flight tickets for passengers improved quality life crew. pairing requires addressing union expectations, company rules, regulations countries' civil aviation authorities. In this study, bi-objective goal progra...

We propose SonOpt, the first (open source) data sonification application for monitoring progress of bi-objective population-based optimization algorithms during search, to facilitate algorithm understanding. SonOpt provides insights into convergence/stagnation evolution approximation set shape, location recurring points in set, and population diversity. The benefits have been shown various non-...