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 …

This paper presents a review and classification of the literature regarding workforce
planning problems incorporating skills. In many cases, technical research regarding …

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 …

In many professions the demand for work requires employees to work in different shifts to
cover varying requirements including areas like health care, protection services …

Assigning scheduled tasks to a multi-skilled workforce is a known NP-complete problem with
many applications in health care, services, logistics and manufacturing. Optimising the use …

Scheduling the availability of order pickers is crucial for effective operations in a distribution
facility with manual order pickers. When order-picking activities can only be performed in …

In dealing with personnel management in companies, two fundamental planning issues
have to be handled: staff rostering and activities assignment. These two problems have …

Many firms face the challenging task of staffing concurrent projects such that the skill
requirements of each project can be satisfied by the respective team of workers. We …

Due to the computational complexity, the staff scheduling problem is generally decomposed
into two subproblems, ie staff rostering and task assignment problems. Very often, this could …

Real world combinatorial optimisation problems do not often reduce to neatly delineated
theoretical problems. Rather, they combine characteristics of various subproblems which …