A Greedy Heuristic for Workforce Scheduling and Routing With Time-dependent Activities Constraints

J. Arturo Castillo-Salazar, Dario Landa-Silva, Rong Qu

2015

Abstract

We present a greedy heuristic (GHI) designed to tackle five time-dependent activities constraints (synchronisation, overlap, minimum difference, maximum difference and minimum-maximum difference) on workforce scheduling and routing problems. These types of constraints are important because they allow the modelling of situations in which activities relate to each other time-wise, e.g. synchronising two technicians to complete a job. These constraints often make the scheduling and routing of employees more difficult. GHI is tested on set of benchmark instances from different workforce scheduling and routing problems (WSRPs). We compare the results obtained by GHI against the results from a mathematical programming solver. The comparison seeks to determine which solution method achieves more best solutions across all instances. Two parameters of GHI are discussed, the sorting of employees and the sorting of visits. We conclude that using the solver is adequate for instances with less than 100 visits but for larger instances GHI obtains better results in less time.

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Arturo Castillo-Salazar J., Landa-Silva D. and Qu R. (2015). A Greedy Heuristic for Workforce Scheduling and Routing With Time-dependent Activities Constraints . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES, ISBN 978-989-758-075-8, pages 367-375. DOI: 10.5220/0005223203670375


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@conference{icores15,
author={J. Arturo Castillo-Salazar and Dario Landa-Silva and Rong Qu},
title={A Greedy Heuristic for Workforce Scheduling and Routing With Time-dependent Activities Constraints},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,},
year={2015},
pages={367-375},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005223203670375},
isbn={978-989-758-075-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,
TI - A Greedy Heuristic for Workforce Scheduling and Routing With Time-dependent Activities Constraints
SN - 978-989-758-075-8
AU - Arturo Castillo-Salazar J.
AU - Landa-Silva D.
AU - Qu R.
PY - 2015
SP - 367
EP - 375
DO - 10.5220/0005223203670375