Optimal shift scheduling with a global service level constraint
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We study a shift scheduling problem for call centers with an overall service level objective. We prove a property of this problem, called multimodularity, that ensures that a local search algorithm terminates with a globally optimal solution. We report on computations we did with real call center data.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001