The scheduling needs of a large, diverse academic anesthesiology department are complex, and have a significant impact on surgical suite efficiency. Our departmnent needed a system that would reduce scheduling effort, decrease errors (particularly uncovered or understaffed assignments), and inprove schedule availability, the vacation request process and the ability to report on assignment histo...

In this study, we aim to present a new model for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) considering a working calendar for project members and determined the skill factor of any member using the efficiency concept. For this purpose, the recyclable resources are staff resources where any person with multiple skills can meet the required skills of activities in a given time. ...

This paper deals with an extension of the classical Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (RCPSP). We present a new type of resource constraints in which staff members are involved. On the one hand, we focus on staff members, each of them having several skills, i.e, is able to perform more than one kind of activity. On the other hand, an activity has specific skill requirements that m...

Staff scheduling and rostering problems, with application in several application areas, from transportation systems to hospitals, have been widely addressed by researchers. This is not the case of hospitality services, which have been forgotten by the quantitative research literature. The purpose of this paper is to provide some insights on the application of staff scheduling and rostering prob...

This paper deals with a multi-agent-based interval type-2 fuzzy (IT2F) expert systemfor scheduling steel continuous casting. Continuous caster scheduling is a complex and extensiveprocess that needs expert staff. In this study, a distributed multi-agent-based structure is proposed as asolution. The agents used herein can cooperate with each other via various communication protocols.To facilitat...

This paper describes the optimization of maintenance workforce scheduling at Afam power station in Nigeria. The objective is to determine the optimum schedule to satisfy growing maintenance labour requirements with minimum cost and highest efficiency. Three alternative maintenance workforce schedules are compared. The first alternative is to continue with the traditional five-day workweek sched...

In organizations where duty is around the clock, 7 days a week and every week of the year, timetabling is a very difficult task, juggling between the workload and the constraints to be respected. Our work concerns cyclical timetabling. This is not just duplicating a fixed sequence of assignments, but has to consider fixed annual leave, and various regulations on assignments on successive days. ...