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MAGS
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Retractable contract network for empowerment in workforce scheduling
This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It i...
Edward P. K. Tsang, Timothy Gosling, Botond Virgin...
EVOW
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Improving Metaheuristic Performance by Evolving a Variable Fitness Function
In this paper we study a complex real world workforce scheduling problem. We apply constructive search and variable neighbourhood search (VNS) metaheuristics and enhance these meth...
Keshav P. Dahal, Stephen Remde, Peter I. Cowling, ...
EVOW
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
The Trade Off Between Diversity and Quality for Multi-objective Workforce Scheduling
In this paper we investigate and compare multi-objective and weighted single objective approaches to a real world workforce scheduling problem. For this difficult problem we consid...
Peter I. Cowling, Nic Colledge, Keshav P. Dahal, S...
EVOW
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Exact/Heuristic Hybrids Using rVNS and Hyperheuristics for Workforce Scheduling
In this paper we study a complex real-world workforce scheduling problem. We propose a method of splitting the problem into smaller parts and solving each part using exhaustive sea...
Stephen Remde, Peter I. Cowling, Keshav P. Dahal, ...
BPM
2009
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Mobile Workforce Scheduling Problem with Multitask-Processes
Abstract. In this work we introduce a new generalization of the ResourceConstrained Project Scheduling Problem – the Mobile Workforce Scheduling Problem with Multitask-Processes ...
Asvin Goel, Volker Gruhn, Thomas Richter