Improving Personnel Scheduling at Airline Stations

Abstract

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A column generation-based heuristic for rostering with work patterns

“…The proposed algorithm is based on simulated annealing and rosters airline ground staff over a monthly planning period, where the objective is to minimize idle time. Other contributions include Brusco et al (1995) and Chu (2007). Brusco et al describe a manpower planning tool for United Airlines (UA).…”

Queueing Analysis in Healthcare

“…It has since been applied to a large range of service industries including banks, airlines, and telephone call centers (e.g. Brewton 1989, Stem and Hersh 1980, Holloran and Byrne 1986, Brusco et al 1995, and Brigandi et al 1994 as well as emergency systems such as police patrol, fire and ambulances (e.g. Larson 1972, Kolesar et al 1975, Chelst and Barlach 1981, Green and Kolesar 1984, Taylor and Huxley 1989.…”

A case-study about shift work management at a hospital emergency department with genetic algorithms

“…From Brusco et al [2], how apply heuristic techniques to optimise shifts, or duty rostersin the airline industry-Burke et al [3] how also apply Tabu Search in this field, several researchers have tried to solve the problem of rostering in an efficient mode. Bechtold et al [1], among others, provide a good reviews and comparisones of the different heuristic methods that have been applied in this field.…”