resource management

Optimal decisions for salvage logging after wildfires

Strategic, tactical, and operational harvesting plans for the forestry and logging industry have been widely studied for more than 60 years. Many different settings and specific constraints due to legal, environmental, and operational requirements …

Salvage logging: harvest scheduling and personnel assignment after wildfires

During summer 2017 Chile was hit by the most massive wildfires in its history, burning more than 450,000 hectares and affecting significantly small and medium forestry companies. In most cases, fires consumed only the tree's bark, leaving the rest of …

Resource cost aware scheduling

We are interested in the scheduling problem where there are several different resources that determine the speed at which a job runs and we pay depending on the amount of each resource that we use. This work is an extension of the resource dependent …

Resource cost aware scheduling problems

Managing the consumption of non-renewable and/or limited resources has become an impor-tant issue in many different settings. In this dissertation we explore the topic of resourcecost aware scheduling. Unlike the purely scheduling problems, in the …