This paper presents a review of the literature on personnel scheduling problems. Firstly, we
discuss the classification methods in former review papers. Secondly, we evaluate the …

Optimisation problems in Healthcare have received considerable attention for more than
three decades. More recently, however, with decreasing birth rates in nearly all of the …

Organizations need to focus on many parameters to reach their goals such as personnel
satisfaction at the top level, profit maximization, increasing system efficiency and minimizing …

We consider an employee scheduling problem arising in service industries with flexible
employee availability and flexible demand. In the system to be planned, there is a given set …

Organising shifts, or work rosters, is a problem that affects a large number of businesses
where employees are subject to some kind of work rotation. Researchers in the fields of …

This paper presents a new methodology to solve the cyclic preference scheduling problem
for hourly workers. The focus is on nurse rostering but is applicable to any organization in …

This paper describes a linear programming hierarchical planning model that determines the
optimal number of nurses to train, promote to management and recruit over a 20 year …

With the economy continually moving towards retail and services, the size of the part-time
workforce is increasing constantly. In this paper, we consider the problem of scheduling a …

In this paper, we present a hybrid genetic algorithm for the well-known nurse scheduling
problem (NSP). The NSP involves the construction of roster schedules for nursing staff in …

Context Many countries have aging populations. Thus, the need for palliative care will
increase. However, the methods to estimate optimal staffing for specialist palliative care …