Abstract Historically, Operations Research (OR) discipline has mainly been focusing on
economic concerns. Since the early 2000s, human considerations are gaining increasing …

This paper studies the personnel staffing decision accounting for the planning of workforce
training and the inclusion of learning and forgetting, which dynamically change the …

Rooted from the Industry 4.0 principles, Cloud Manufacturing (CMfg) is a novel customer-
oriented manufacturing norm, which can assist enterprises to withstand in the nowadays …

In many professions the demand for work requires employees to work in different shifts to
cover varying requirements including areas like health care, protection services …

Due to the computational complexity, the staff scheduling problem is generally decomposed
into two subproblems, ie staff rostering and task assignment problems. Very often, this could …

Real world combinatorial optimisation problems do not often reduce to neatly delineated
theoretical problems. Rather, they combine characteristics of various subproblems which …

This paper addresses the detailed assignment of nurses to surgical operations taking into
account the skills requirements. We consider the building of weekly nurse schedule roster by …

In this paper, we study the Shift Design and Personnel Task Scheduling Problem with Equity
objective, initially introduced by Lapègue, Bellenguez-Morineau and Prot (“A Constraint …

A mixed integer linear programming model is presented for personnel planning of ground
handling crews at Santiago International Airport in Chile. The model generates employee …

Workforce scheduling studies have mainly focused on staff rostering, ie assigning
employees to shifts and determining working days and rest days. In the recent years, the …