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Springer.-.Flexible.Shift.Planning.in.the.Service.Industry.Retail.Ebook-PDFWriters


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Release.Date.. : 25-1-2010
Store.Date.... : 00-04-2010
ISSN.......... : 978-3-642-10516-6
Autor......... : Jens O. Brunner
Genre......... : Ebook
System........ : PDF
Protection.... : None
Language...... : English
Publisher..... : Springer
Disksize...... : 1 x 5 MB



R E L E A S E I N F O


The book presents new ideas to model and
solve the flexible shift planning problem of
personnel workers in the service industry.
First, a new modeling approach is proposed
that requires shifts to be generated
implicitly rather than employing a
predefined set of shift types like three
8-hour or two 12-hour shifts to cover
varying forecast demand. The objective is to
minimize the total cost of the assignments
given the general and individual labor
restrictions. Second, to find high quality
assignments two solution methodologies are
presented. A heuristic decomposition
strategy decomposes the problem into weekly
subproblems whereas a branch-and-price
algorithm that uses several branching rules
decomposes the model by worker types. The
master problem uses a set covering
formulation whereas the subproblems are
mixed integer programs. The modeling and
solution methodologies are developed and
tested using the example of physicians from
an anesthesia department of a German
university hospital.

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