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The art and science of designing rotating schedules

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  • G Laporte

    (GERAD and École des Hautes Études Commerciales)

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Rotating schedules are commonly used in a number of industries and public services where employees work round the clock, seven days a week. Several rules govern the design of such schedules. While this problem can be formulated as an integer linear program, this methodology is often too rigid. In this paper I argue that to obtain rotating schedules that are acceptable in practice, rules often have to be broken so that designing good schedules is more of an art than a science.

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  • G Laporte, 1999. "The art and science of designing rotating schedules," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 50(10), pages 1011-1017, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:jorsoc:v:50:y:1999:i:10:d:10.1057_palgrave.jors.2600803
    DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600803
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    1. M Lezaun & G Pérez & E Sáinz de la Maza, 2010. "Staff rostering for the station personnel of a railway company," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 61(7), pages 1104-1111, July.
    2. Pastor, Rafael & Olivella, Jordi, 2008. "Selecting and adapting weekly work schedules with working time accounts: A case of a retail clothing chain," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 184(1), pages 1-12, January.
    3. Marta Rocha & José Oliveira & Maria Carravilla, 2014. "A constructive heuristic for staff scheduling in the glass industry," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 217(1), pages 463-478, June.
    4. Tristan Becker, 2020. "A decomposition heuristic for rotational workforce scheduling," Journal of Scheduling, Springer, vol. 23(5), pages 539-554, October.
    5. G Laporte & G Pesant, 2004. "A general multi-shift scheduling system," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 55(11), pages 1208-1217, November.
    6. M Lezaun & G Pérez & E Sáinz de la Maza, 2006. "Crew rostering problem in a public transport company," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 57(10), pages 1173-1179, October.
    7. Falcón, Raúl & Barrena, Eva & Canca, David & Laporte, Gilbert, 2016. "Counting and enumerating feasible rotating schedules by means of Gröbner bases," Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM), Elsevier, vol. 125(C), pages 139-151.
    8. Tristan Becker & Pia Mareike Steenweg & Brigitte Werners, 2019. "Cyclic shift scheduling with on-call duties for emergency medical services," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 22(4), pages 676-690, December.

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    rotating schedules; shift work;

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