background and objectives: in this paper, a real life nurse scheduling model is described based on the conditions in iranian hospitals such as monthly shift rotation, consecutive morning and evening shifts and consecutive evening and night shift.   methods: the developed model considers both hospital constraints and nurses’ preferences. hospital constraints include assigning adequate qualified ...

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This paper considers a shift scheduling problem that includes different forms of flexibility in terms of shift starting times, break lengths and break placement. Two particular forms are studied: fractionable breaks and work stretch duration restrictions. For some instances the use of fractionable breaks results in considerable labor savings. In addition, imposing work stretch duration restrict...

Hospitals need to repeatedly produce duty rosters for its nursing staff. The good scheduling of nurses has impact on the quality of health care, the recruitment of nurses, the development of budgets and other nursing functions. The nurse rostering problem (NRP) has been the subject of much study. This paper presents a brief overview, in the form of a bibliographic survey, of the many models and...

This paper constructs a two-stage mathematical programming model to solve the nurse scheduling problem in order to assign nurses to shifts over a scheduling period so that certain constraints (organizational and personal) are satisfied. In the first stage, the nurse optimal vacation schedules are solved by a self-schedule programming that can check for any violation of government regulations, h...

Computational methods for rostering and personnel scheduling has been a subject of continued research and commercial interest since the 1950s. This annotated bibliography puts together a comprehensive collection of some 700 references in this area, focusing mainly on algorithms for generating rosters and personnel schedules but also covering related areas such as workforce planning and estimati...

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...