During the peak tourist season, large theme parks often experience a simultaneous influx of visitors, resulting in prolonged waiting times for popular attractions. This extended waiting significantly reduces tourists' satisfaction and may negatively impact their willingness to revisit the theme park. In Taiwan, schools at all levels often plan graduation trips to theme parks for their students.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: In large-scale events such as concerts and sports competitions, participants often leave the venue at the same time to return to their respective destinations. Improper traffic planning and traffic light operation usually lead to traffic congestion and road chaos near the sites. Rapid evacuation of participants has become an important issue.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The main issue related to the duty schedule is to allocate medical staff to each medical department by considering personnel skills and personal vocation preferences. However, how to effectively use staff's multiskill characteristics and how to execute vocation control have not been well investigated.
Objectives: This article aims to develop duty scheduling and vacation permission decisions to minimize the sum of customers' waiting costs, the overtime cost of medical staff, the cost of failing to meet medical staff' vacation requirements, and the cost of mutual support between departments.
Introduction: In Taiwan, liquefied petroleum gas tank users have to call a gas company to deliver a full liquefied petroleum gas tank when their tank is out of gas. The calls usually congest in the cooking time and the customers have to wait for a long time for a full liquefied petroleum gas tank. Additionally, allocating manpower is difficult for the gas company.
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