OBJECTIVE Contribution to the discussion of the role of participation/consent of employees in working hours regulation. METHODS Exploratory analysis of conflicts between preferences of employees and ergonomic recommendations in shift scheduling by analysing a large number of participative shift scheduling projects. RESULTS The analysis showed that very often the pursuit of higher income pla...

This article focused on the sleep effects of three schedule attributes. Ideally, business requirements and employee preferences also will be taken into account when selecting the "best" shift schedule for your site.

This paper introduces a model for Distributed Employee Timetabling Problems (DisETPs) and proposes a general architecture for solving DisETPs by using a Multi Agent System (MAS) paradigm. The architecture is composed of a set of autonomous software Scheduling Agents (SAs) that solve the Employee Timetabling Problems (ETP) for each department. Each agent has its own local ETP problem and its own...

In several countries, home care is provided for certain citizens living at home. The long-term home care scheduling problem is to generate work plans such that a high quality of service is maintained, the work hours of the employees are respected, and the overall cost is kept as low as possible. We propose a branchand-price algorithm for the long-term home care scheduling problem. The pricing p...

Lean construction is aimed at improving construction performance by eliminating wastes that do not add value to the customer. This project studies lean construction and its application in concrete construction projects at both the operation and project levels. In conjunction with a concrete contractor, actual concrete construction projects were observed, and problem areas contributing to delay ...

This paper proposes a model and algorithm for optimizing staffing and shift scheduling decisions at a 24/7 cybersecurity operations center. We study a two-stage stochastic shift scheduling problem over a 14-day pay period with three shifts per day, several staffing and scheduling constraints, uncertain workloads and on call staffing options. We solve this problem with a heuristic simplification...

Grid computing is an emerging technology in distributed systems that provide a high performance computing platform to solve larger scale applications by coordinating and sharing computational power, data storage and network resources. All Grid resources are heterogeneous. A grid integrates and coordinates resources and users of different administrative domains inside the same company or in diff...

A problem of personnel scheduling in a multiskilled environment is addressed. This problem is treated in an integrated manner, modeling shift scheduling and rostering as one problem. Additionally, the integrated approach allows also to better model intraday breaks and days-off scheduling. Alternative MIP formulations are presented which lead to optimal shift schedulings and task assignments. Im...