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Column generation based approaches for a tour scheduling problem with a multi-skill heterogeneous workforce

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  • Gérard, Matthieu
  • Clautiaux, François
  • Sadykov, Ruslan

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In this paper, we address a multi-activity tour scheduling problem with time varying demand. The objective is to compute a team schedule for a fixed roster of employees in order to minimize the over-coverage and the under-coverage of different parallel activity demands along a planning horizon of one week. Numerous complicating constraints are present in our problem: all employees are different and can perform several different activities during the same day-shift, lunch breaks and pauses are flexible, demand is given for 15 minutes periods. Employees have feasibility and legality rules to be satisfied, but the objective function does not account for any quality measure associated with each individual’s schedule. More precisely, the problem mixes simultaneously days-off scheduling, shift scheduling, shift assignment, activity assignment, pause and lunch break assignment.

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  • Gérard, Matthieu & Clautiaux, François & Sadykov, Ruslan, 2016. "Column generation based approaches for a tour scheduling problem with a multi-skill heterogeneous workforce," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 252(3), pages 1019-1030.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ejores:v:252:y:2016:i:3:p:1019-1030
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2016.01.036
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