This paper presents a compact integer-programming model for large-scale continuous tour scheduling problems that incorporate meal-break window, start-time band, and start-time interval policies. For practical scheduling environments, generalized set-covering formulations (GSCFs) of such problems...

Many organizations face personnel scheduling decisions under conditions of variable demand for service across a seven-day planning horizon. These organizations must assign employees to daily shifts that efficiently satisfy the demand for labor, yet allow adequate time for rest between subsequent...