Manpower still is one of the most expansive resources, in spite of increasing automation. While employee scheduling and rostering has been the topic of extensive research over the past decades, usually it is assumed that the demand for staff is either given or can be obtained without difficulty....

Effectiveness in the use of the work force is often the crucial advantage in a company's long-term success over its competitors, especially in technology driven and highly competitive branches as the one considered in this article. While employee scheduling and rostering has been the topic of...

Effectiveness in the use of the work force is often the crucial advantage in a company's long-term success over its competitors, especially in technology driven and highly competitive branches as the one considered in this article. While employee scheduling and rostering has been the topic of...

Manpower still is one of the most expansive resources, in spite of increasing automation. While employee scheduling and rostering has been the topic of extensive research over the past decades, usually it is assumed that the demand for staff is either given or can be obtained without difficulty....

Gruppierungs- und Reihenfolgeprobleme der Fertigung zählen zu den zentralen Fragestellungen der (operativen) Produktionsplanung. Gruppierung bezeichnet dabei die zu treffenden Entscheidungen über Größe und zeitliche Lage von Fertigungsaufträgen (Losen), während der Reihenfolgeaspekt die...

Das zunehmende Interesse an der Analyse dynamischer Prozesse und die sich ständig verbessernde Verfügbarkeit der zu ihrer Untersuchung notwenigen Datensätze lassen die Frage nach geeigneten Verfahren aufkommen. Traditionelle Methoden wie logistische und lineare Regression sind entweder nicht...