Abstract—This paper deals with a real world personnel scheduling problem of a company that has large number of
employees. In this problem, once given the number of workers
needed for each day and shift, and the constraints emerging from the company and official regulations, the objective is to assign the shifts to workers in a fair manner. To solve this problem, we defined two sub problems, where the first one is
the tour scheduling problem, and the second one is the employee assignment problem. We built the integer linear models of these problems by incorporating the constraints and implemented the models in a solver. Application results show that our results are much better in terms of schedule quality and fairness when it is compared with actual schedule. To our best, this is the first study that takes fairness into account.
Index Terms—Tour scheduling, shift scheduling, shift assignment, personnel scheduling, fairness.
The authors are with Marmara University, Engineering Faculty, Computer Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey (e-mail: gozde.alp@marmara.edu,
trfalkaya@marmara.edu.tr).
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Cite: Gözde Alp and Ali Fuat Alkaya, "Improving the Quality of Personnel Scheduling by
Incorporating Fairness," International Journal of Modeling and Optimization vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 97-101, 2019.
