Optimizing staff scheduling by Monte-Carlo simulation.

  • 1 January 1992
    • journal article
    • p. 678-81
Abstract
DOCS is a computer program which generates the staff schedule. An accounting framework is combined with an optimization technique that searches for a schedule in which all accounts are simultaneously in balance. The search is accomplished using a Monte-Carlo process which shuffles staff within the schedule. The shuffling is biased according to each staffer's account balance: the staffer who owes the most is most likely to be scheduled.

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