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 …

Over the last decades, hospitals have faced increasing financial pressure due to rising costs
and changes in reimbursement policies. One of the reasons for this development is the …

Work-related fatigue is a multidimensional phenomenon with significant effects on
operational performance. Our work focuses on how the literature of operational research …

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 …

Home Care (HC) providers are complex organizations that manage a large number of
patients, different categories of operators, support staff and material resources in a context …

In this paper we present a Decision Support System (DSS) for surgery scheduling which is
currently in use in several Surgical Units in one of the largest hospitals in Spain. This system …

This research addresses a shift scheduling problem in which physicians are assigned to
demand periods. We develop a reduced set covering approach that requires shift templates …

We present a strategic model to solve the long-term staffing problem of physicians in
hospitals using flexible shifts. The objective is to minimize the total number of staff subject to …

Scheduling of surgeries in the operating rooms under limited competing resources such as
surgical and nursing staff, anesthesiologist, medical equipment, and recovery beds in …

This paper addresses operation models for workforce planning for check-in systems at
airports. We characterize different tasks of the hierarchical workforce planning problem with …