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 …

This paper presents a review of staff scheduling and rostering, an area that has become
increasingly important as business becomes more service oriented and cost conscious in a …

Nurse rostering is a complex scheduling problem that affects hospital personnel on a daily
basis all over the world. The need for quality software solutions is acute for a number of …

Computational methods for rostering and personnel scheduling has been a subject of
continued research and commercial interest since the 1950s. This annotated bibliography …

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 …

This paper presents a hybrid multi-objective model that combines integer programming (IP)
and variable neighbourhood search (VNS) to deal with highly-constrained nurse rostering …

The employee tour scheduling problem involves the determination of both work hours of the
day and workdays of the week for each employee. This problem has proven difficult to solve …

We consider the problem of scheduling staff with mixed skills. We formulate the problem as a
multi-criteria optimization model, where the primary objective is to minimize the total cost for …

One of the challenges facing humanitarian organizations is that there exist limited decision
technologies that are tailored specifically to their needs. While employee workforce …

The seaport of Gioia Tauro is the largest transshipment terminal of the Mediterranean coast.
A crucial management task for the companies operating in the seaport is team-building: the …