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A Flexible Model and a Hybrid Exact Method for Integrated Employee Timetabling and Production Scheduling

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Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling VI (PATAT 2006)

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We propose a flexible model and several integer linear programming and constraint programming formulations for integrated employee timetabling and production scheduling problems. A hybrid constraint and linear programming exact method is designed to solve a basic integrated employee timetabling and job-shop scheduling problem for lexicographic minimization of makespan and labor costs. Preliminary computational experiments show the potential of hybrid methods.

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  1. Université de Toulouse, LAAS-CNRS, 7 avenue du Colonel Roche, 31077 Toulouse, Cedex 4, France

    Christian Artigues

  2. CRT, Université de Montréal, CP 6128, succ. Centre-ville, Montreal, QC, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Michel Gendreau & Louis-Martin Rousseau

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Artigues, C., Gendreau, M., Rousseau, LM. (2007). A Flexible Model and a Hybrid Exact Method for Integrated Employee Timetabling and Production Scheduling. In: Burke, E.K., Rudová, H. (eds) Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling VI. PATAT 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3867. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77345-0_5

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