This paper presents a new technique to adaptively measure the current performance levels of a health system and based on these decide on optimal resource allocation strategies. Here we address the specific problem of staff scheduling in real-time in order to improve patient satisfaction by dynamically predicting and controlling waiting times by adjusting staffing levels. We consider the cost of...

Scheduling is an important tool for manufacturing and engineering, where it can have a major impact on the productivity of a process (Min et al., 2009). In manufacturing, the purpose of production scheduling is to minimize the production time and costs, by informing a production facility when to make, with which staff, and on which equipment (Zhu et al., 2011). Nowadays, it is possible to obser...

This paper discusses and analyses the tradeoff between the flexibility afforded with greater number of staff and the implied cost of employing extra staff in the context of the nurse-scheduling problem. If the number of staff is constant, our study allows quantification of the degree of pressure put on the staff resulting from the schedules that do not satisfy their preferences for shift alloca...

Challenged by rising costs, higher registered nurse vacancy rates and declining staff morale, a Nursing Productivity Committee was formed to analyze productive and nonproductive hours and seek improvements in our staffing models and scheduling processes. The changes implemented led to lower nurse to patient ratios, better control of labor costs, elimination of agency staff, greater staff satisf...

Nowadays, reaching a high level of employee satisfaction in efficient schedules is an important and difficult task faced by companies. We tackle new variant the personnel scheduling problem under unknown demand considering via endogenous uncertainty depending on combination their preferred received schedules. address this context reserve staff scheduling, unstudied operational from transit indu...

Cloud Computing is one of the emerging technologies which expand the boundary of internet by using the centralized servers to maintain data and resources. It enables the users and the consumers to use various applications provided by the cloud provider. But one of the major problems in front of this is workflow scheduling. The workflow scheduling is nothing but the scheduling algorithm, which i...

A recurring problem in project management involves the allocation of scarce resources to the individual jobs comprising the project. In many situations such as audit-staff scheduling, timetabling, and course scheduling, the resources correspond to individuals (skilled labour). This naturally leads to an assignment-type project scheduling problem, i.e. a project has to be performed by assigning ...

This paper focuses on the staff shift scheduling problem on luxury hotel restaurant. Effective staff scheduling has always been a concern for restaurant managers. This paper addresses this issue by investigating the nature of restaurant jobs, ultimately proposing a Shift Scheduling Model designed to level workloads of employees in restaurant service at these establishments. This model creates s...