کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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482350 | 1446212 | 2006 | 21 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
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Scheduling trainees (graduate students) is a complicated problem that has to be solved frequently in many hospital departments. We will describe a trainee-scheduling problem encountered in practice (at the ophthalmology department of the university hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven). In this problem, a department has a number of trainees at its disposal, which assist specialists in their activities (surgery, consultation, etc.). For each trainee one has to schedule the activities in which (s)he will assist during a certain time horizon, usually one year. Typically, this kind of scheduling problem is characterized by four types of constraints: work covering constraints, formation requirements, non-availability constraints and setup restrictions. In this paper, we will describe an exact branch-and-price method to solve the problem to optimality.
Journal: European Journal of Operational Research - Volume 175, Issue 1, 16 November 2006, Pages 258–278