Production scheduling in manufacturing systems is a highly complex task. It involves the allocation of limited resources (machines, tools, personnel, etc.) for the execution of specific jobs. In the case of workforce ...

Human resource allocation turns out to be a critical process inside production and service companies not only for managers and directors, but also for employees and operators. Classical scheduling theories establish that ...

Only a few studies in the available scientific literature address the problem of having a group of workers that do not share identical levels of productivity during the planning horizon. This study considers a workforce ...

A methodology is presented that determines the staff requirements for a baggage handling operation at an international airport facing high demand. It consists of two sequentially solved integer linear programming models. ...

The increase in the demand for energy has caused the concessionaires to seek improvements in their processes in order to ensure the social and economic development of the country. One of the ways of improvement is the ...

Multiskilling is a workforce flexibility strategy where companies educate workers to perform a set of task types effectively. When the multiskilling plans are structured using k-chaining policies, it is possible to obtain ...