Solution Methodologies

Jens O. Brunner ()
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Jens O. Brunner: Technische Universität München

Chapter Chapter 4 in Flexible Shift Planning in the Service Industry, 2010, pp 39-72 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter we present solutions methodologies for the flexible shift scheduling problem of physicians in a hospital. After discussing some preprocessing issues in Sect. 4.1 we present a heuristic decomposition strategy in Sect. 4.2 which has been applied to find a set of rosters in Sect. 3.3. Finally, we conclude the chapter by presenting our new column generation approach embedded in a B&B framework to find optimal solutions to the physician scheduling problem. This combination is widely known under B&P algorithms.

Keywords: Planning Horizon; Search Tree; Column Generation; Dual Variable; Master Problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10517-3_4

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