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 …

Manufacturers in a wide range of industries nowadays face the challenge of providing a rich
product variety at a very low cost. This typically requires the implementation of cost efficient …

Hyper-heuristics is a fairly recent technique that aims at effectively solving various real-world
optimization problems. This is the first book on hyper-heuristics, and aims to bring together …

This paper presents a review of the literature on multi-appointment scheduling problems in
hospitals. In these problems, patients need to sequentially visit multiple resource types in a …

Many service systems display nonstationary demand: the number of customers fluctuates
over time according to a stochastic—though to some extent predictable—pattern. To …

This paper presents an overview of recent advances for the Nurse Rostering Problem (NRP)
based on methodological papers published between 2012 to 2021. It provides a …

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 …

Abstract The field of “Sustainable Operations” and the term itself have arisen only in the last
ten to twenty years in the context of sustainable development. Even though the term is …

Abstract The Nurse Rostering Problem (NRP) is a complex scheduling problem in which
nurses must be assigned to shifts according to a set of constraints. The NRP is difficult to …

Despite a long history of health services research that indicates that having sufficient nursing
staff on hospital wards is critical for patient safety, and sustained interest in nurse staffing …