“Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services” written by Michael L. Pinedo and published in the Springer Series in Operations Research is a recent book intended for a senior level or master level course on planning and scheduling either in an engineering or a business school. The book consists of four parts. Part I introduces the main features of scheduling models in manufacturing and...

In the context of workforce scheduling, there are many scenarios in which personnel must carry out tasks at different locations hence requiring some form of transportation. Examples of these type of scenarios include nurses visiting patients at home, technicians carrying out repairs at customers’ locations and security guards performing rounds at different premises, etc. We refer to these scena...

In this paper we investigate and compare multi-objective and weighted single objective approaches to a real world workforce scheduling problem. For this difficult problem we consider the trade off in solution quality versus population diversity, for different sets of fixed objective weights. Our real-world workforce scheduling problem consists of assigning resources with the appropriate skills ...

This paper presents a simulation approach for employee days-off scheduling when the daily labour demands are random variables. A simulation model is constructed, and a case study application of the proposed approach is described. The model recognizes limited staff availability, stochastic workload variability, and policy restrictions on the choice of employee work schedules. The model has been ...

Real world combinatorial optimization problems such as scheduling are typically too complex to solve with exact methods. Additionally, the problems often have to observe vaguely speci ed constraints of di erent importance, the available data may be uncertain, and compromises between antagonistic criteria may be necessary. We present a combination of approximate reasoning based constraints and i...

Manpower scheduling means assigning a work pattern (shift day) according to the wants and needs of system workforce with goal minimum cost. Many production service systems require multiple scheduling. This problem is generally NP-complete, it takes long time solve through current method. Today, several innovative methods have been proposed such problems. In this paper, simulated annealing metho...

After the emergence of industry 4.0 and continuous technological development, it became vital for industries to transfer mass production expertise into personalized products in small batches. Clients more aware their needs start basing decision on specific quality requirements, lower cost, shortest delivery date. This is where collaborative robots intervene, these structures can work hand with ...

This paper presents a novel bi-objective manpower scheduling problem that minimizes the penalty resulted from employees’ assignment at lower skill levels than their real skill and maximizes employees’ utility for working at a special skill level in some shifts or on some days. Employees are classified in two specialist groups and three skill levels in each specialization. In addition, the prese...