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Flexible shift scheduling of physicians

Health Care Management Science, 2009
This research addresses a shift scheduling problem in which physicians at a German university hospital are assigned to demand periods over a planning horizon that can extend up to several weeks. When performing the scheduling it is necessary to take into account a variety of legal and institutional constraints that are imposed by a national labor ...
Brunner, Jens O., Bard, Jonathan F., Kolisch, Rainer   +2 more
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Generating Acceptable Shift-working Schedules

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 1988
When a factory operates a shift system of working, the work patterns are usually laid down at the start and adhered to for long periods. In this case study, small out-stations with frequent changes in manning require the frequent generation of new schedules.
John Baxter, Mark Mosby
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Firefighter Shift Schedules Affect Sleep Quality

Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 2016
The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and severity of firefighter sleep quality across department shift schedules.Sleep quality was assessed using a Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index in a sample of 109 male career firefighters from six fire departments in three Southwestern US states.
Joel, Billings, Will, Focht
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A general multi-shift scheduling system

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2004
Summary: Rotating work schedules are encountered in several industries and public sector organizations where work is carried out 24h a day, 7 days a week. This article first provides a classification of the main constraint classes governing the design of rotating schedules.
Laporte, G., Pesant, G.
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Shift schedule realignment and patient safety culture

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 2020
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the association between shift schedule realignment and patient safety culture. Design/methodology/approach Using difference in differences model, BIMC Hospitals and Siloam Hospital Bali were compared before and after shift schedule realignment to test the association between shift schedule realignment ...
Made Indra, Wijaya, Abd Rahim, Mohamad, Muhammad, Hafizurrachman   +2 more
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Shift scheduling for tank trucks

Omega, 2011
Abstract In this paper we deal with shift scheduling of tank trucks for a small oil company. Given are a set of tank trucks with different characteristics and a set of drivers with different skills. The objective is to assign a feasible driver to every shift of the tank trucks such that legal and safety restrictions are satisfied, the total working ...
Sigrid Knust, Elisabeth Schumacher
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Scheduling with day shifts and breaks

International Transactions in Operational Research, 2020
AbstractTraditional scheduling assumes that production can continue around the clock unless machines are not available. This is not without question for labor‐intensive industries where operations are performed manually. Motivated by operation management problems arising in the assembly stage of aeroengines and in the paint‐spraying stage of wooden ...
Dehua Xu, Limin Xu, Xianyu Yu
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Peak shift in concurrent schedules.

Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, 2010
Pigeons were exposed to two keys, a main key and a changeover key. Initially non-differential training was given in which pecking the main key was reinforced on a variable-interval 2-min schedule when the key displayed the first stimulus, a black line on a blue background, and was reinforced on an identical but independent variable-interval 2-min ...
A S, Winton, I L, Beale
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Eliminating Rotating Shifts Simplifies Schedule

Opflow, 1988
The City of Loveland Water Treatment Plant in Loveland, Colorado has developed a method of scheduling 24‐hour shifts which combines the best of both the rotating‐shift and 12‐hour shift schedules. By simply eliminating rotating shifts this alternate schedule solves most problems associated with traditional 8‐hour schedules. With the alternate schedule,
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AN INTEGRATED WORK SHIFT SCHEDULING SYSTEM

Decision Sciences, 1976
ABSTRACTAn integrated work shift scheduling system is developed and applied in the scheduling of 2600 telephone operators in 43 locations of the General Telephone Company of California. The system involves the forecasting of calls on a half‐hourly basis, the conversion to operator requirements, the scheduling of tours by a heuristic algorithm, the ...
Elwood S. Buffa, Michael J. Cosgrove, Bill J. Luce   +2 more
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