Shift Scheduling Optimization: A Real-Life Underground Transportation Example

A Nurse Scheduling Model under Real Life Constraints

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 qualifie...

Underground Mining Transportation Systems

A review of real-time optimization in underground mining production

Modern mining is the process of exploiting minerals from the earth to derive profits. Realtime optimization for plant-wide production has been implemented in the process industry; however, these systems have not yet been implemented for mine-wide production in the mining industry, particularly for underground mines. Real-time control systems have been applied to a few unit operations (e.g. conv...

a nurse scheduling model under real life constraints

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 ...

Integrated optimization of underground mine design and scheduling

It is well recognized that software tools for strategic underground mine planning are lacking, and that the demand for these tools will increase as deeper deposits amenable to underground mining continue to grow in value. While a number of optimization techniques have been developed for stope layout design and progress continues to be made in the area of production scheduling, both of these min...