This paper presents a review of staff scheduling and rostering, an area that has become
increasingly important as business becomes more service oriented and cost conscious in a …

Publisher Summary Railway transportation can be split into passenger transportation and
cargo transportation. This chapter discusses the European situation, where the major part of …

Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition and column generation, devised for linear programs, is a
success story in large-scale integer programming. We outline and relate the approaches …

In most vehicle routing and crew scheduling applications solved by column generation, the
subproblem corresponds to a shortest path problem with resource constraints (SPPRC) or …

Computational methods for rostering and personnel scheduling has been a subject of
continued research and commercial interest since the 1950s. This annotated bibliography …

The health care system in Sweden and many other countries is facing increasing costs. The
major reason is the changing age distribution of the population with more elderly people in …

In this paper, we propose a vehicle-scheduling model for electric transit buses with either
battery swapping or fast charging at a battery station, and a vehicle-scheduling model with …

This pioneering book addresses the latest research findings and application results on
disruption management, which is the study of how to dynamically recover a predetermined …

Operations research techniques are extremely important tools for planning airline
operations. However, much of the technical literature on airline optimization models is highly …

Given a set of jobs and a set of workers, the generic problem we consider is to find a
partition of the jobs into subsets so that each job is contained in exactly one subset, and …