On uniform $k$-partition problems

We study various uniform $k$-partition problems which consist in partitioning $m$ sets, each of cardinality $k$, into $k$ sets of cardinality $m$ such that each of these sets contains exactly one element from every original set. The problems differ according to the particular measure of ``set uniformity'' to be optimized. Most problems are polynomial and corresponding solution algorithms are provided. A few of them are proved to be NP-hard. Examples of applications to scheduling and routing problems are also discussed.