This paper presents a review of the literature on personnel scheduling problems. Firstly, we
discuss the classification methods in former review papers. Secondly, we evaluate the …

Over the last decades, hospitals have faced increasing financial pressure due to rising costs
and changes in reimbursement policies. One of the reasons for this development is the …

Organizations need to focus on many parameters to reach their goals such as personnel
satisfaction at the top level, profit maximization, increasing system efficiency and minimizing …

We consider an employee scheduling problem arising in service industries with flexible
employee availability and flexible demand. In the system to be planned, there is a given set …

This research addresses a shift scheduling problem in which physicians are assigned to
demand periods. We develop a reduced set covering approach that requires shift templates …

The share of gross domestic product from the service industry reflects the competitiveness of
a nation; the service industry in the USA accounts for around 80% of its gross domestic …

We present a strategic model to solve the long-term staffing problem of physicians in
hospitals using flexible shifts. The objective is to minimize the total number of staff subject to …

This paper demonstrates the ease and invaluable benefits of applying simple Operations
Research (OR) tools to a common and sensitive problem in health care. Specifically, it …

Fairness is a natural concern when model‐based decisions affect human beings. In
personnel‐management decisions, employees' perceptions of fairness depend both upon …

Persistent calls come from within the graduate medical education community and from
external sources for regulating the resident duty hours in order to meet the obligations about …