Flexible Shift Planning in the Service Industry The Case of Physicians in Hospitals /

• Main Author: Brunner, Jens O. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 640
• Subjects: Medicine.; Organization.; Planning.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Public health.; Mathematical optimization.; Management science.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Optimization.; Public Health.; Operations Research, Management Science.

The book presents new ideas to model and solve the flexible shift planning problem of personnel workers in the service industry. First, a new modeling approach is proposed that requires shifts to be generated implicitly rather than employing a predefined set of shift types like three 8-hour or two 1...

Table of Contents:

• Literature Review on Personnel Scheduling
• MIP Model for Flexible Shift Scheduling of Physicians
• Solution Methodologies
• Experimental Investigations
• Conclusions and Further Remarks.