Solving an integrated job-shop problem with human resource constraints

Olivier Guyon (), Pierre Lemaire (), Éric Pinson () and David Rivreau ()

Annals of Operations Research, 2014, vol. 213, issue 1, 147-171

Abstract: We propose two exact methods to solve an integrated employee-timetable and job-shop-scheduling problem. The problem is to find a minimum cost employee-timetable, where employees have different competences and work during shifts, so that the production, that corresponds to a job-shop with resource availability constraints, can be achieved. We introduce two new exact procedures: (1) a decomposition and cut generation approach and (2) a hybridization of a cut generation process with a branch and bound strategy. We also propose initial cuts that strongly improve these methods as well as a standard MIP approach. The computational performances of those methods on benchmark instances are compared to that of other methods from the literature. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2014

Keywords: Employee timetabling problem; Job-shop; Job-shop with resource availability constraints; Probing; Cut generation; Branch and bound (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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