The 2011 World Statistics Congress included approximately 1,150 oral and 250 poster presentations over approximately 250 sessions, with as many as 20 sessions running in parallel at any one time. Scheduling a timetable for such a conference is hence a complicated task, as ideally, talks on similar topics should be scheduled in the same session, and similar session topics should not be presented...

Coordination plays crucial role in supply chain scheduling. In this paper, we extend the existing body of literature on supply chain scheduling by representing the robust schedule coordination approach. A hybrid discrete/continuous flow shop supply chain with job shop processes at each supplier stage is studied with dynamic optimal control models. We consider operations, channel, resource and f...

A couple-level analysis with a sample of 105 female reduced-hours physicians and their fulltime–employed husbands found individual and spouse crossover effects: Each spouse’s ratings of own schedule fit predict own job-role quality; wives’ ratings of partner/family schedule fit predict their marital-role quality, with a similar trend for husbands; husbands’ ratings of own schedule fit predict w...

In this paper we utilize extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) chart analysis in a coded direct-sequence codedivision multiple-access (DS-CDMA) multiuser receiver to dynamically derive the optimal decoding schedule in the unequal user power level case. Conventional receivers generally follow a predetermined decoding schedule. However, decoding delay and complexity can be significantly reduced w...