Abstract: The Master Surgery Scheduling Problem (MSSP) can be described as a timetabling problem involving assigning surgery groups to operating theatre (OT) time slots. Previous MSSP optimization ...

A forest of olive trees once covered the world’s oldest temple site, but they weren’t ancient. Planted by landowners in the 1990s to raise land value, the trees grew over buried pillars of Göbekli ...

Abstract: To avoid worldwide climate change effects, decarbonization initiatives transit the distribution systems to be mixed with a high penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) and ...