Labour scheduling at an airport refuelling installation

• Published in: The Journal of the Operational Research Society Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 211 - 218
• Main Authors: Alvarez-Valdes, R, Crespo, E, Tamarit, J M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Taylor & Francis 01.03.1999; Macmillan Press; Palgrave Macmillan UK; Palgrave; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Airports; Algorithms; Applied sciences; Business and Management; Case-oriented Paper; Case-Oriented Papers; Exact sciences and technology; Heuristic; Heuristics; Human resource management; Labor demand; labour scheduling; Management; Operational research and scientific management; Operational research. Management science; Operations research; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Personal computers; Refueling; Rotation; Scheduling; Scheduling, sequencing; Searches; Software packages; Studies; Tabu search; Workforce; Working hours; heuristics; labour scheduling; tabu search; Assignment; Tabu search; Airport; Work; Scheduling; Implementation; Refueling

We have developed an automatic assignment procedure for labour scheduling at a continously operating airport refuelling installation. Different types of workers are subject to different conditions on the shifts they can do (morning, evening or night), shift lengths, days-off, holidays, terms of cont...