Employee substitutability as a tool to improve the robustness in personnel scheduling

Intelligent scheduling for emergency room(ER) personnel to improve productivity

Improving productivity in emergency services and managing limited resources of emergency room(ER) are key challenges for health managers of oil industry. One critical and costly resource is ER personnel  and its lack can lead to long queue of patients. Thus appropriate scheduling for nurses and physicians can help ER managers to  get maximum benefit of their current human resource and reduce th...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Closing gaps: integrating food safety management systems into the veterinary curriculum, as a tool to improve food quality and trade

IMITATOR 2.5: A Tool for Analyzing Robustness in Scheduling Problems

The tool Imitator implements the Inverse Method (IM ) for Timed Automata (TAs). Given a TA A and a tuple π0 of reference valuations for timings, IM synthesizes a constraint around π0 where A behaves in the same discrete manner. This provides us with a quantitative measure of robustness of the behavior of A around π0. The new version Imitator 2.5 integrates the new features of stopwatches (in ad...

Scheduling part-time personnel with availability restrictions and preferences to maximize employee satisfaction

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 workforce consisting entirely of part-time workers. The part-time workers have availabilities, preferences for the shifts, and also a seniority level. We propose an integer programming model to maximize employee sat...