Search Results - subject:"soft constraints"

Annual block scheduling for internal medicine residents with 4+1 templates

Bard, Jonathan F.; Shu, Zhichao; Morrice, Douglas J.; … - In: Journal of the Operational Research Society : OR 67 (2016) 7, pp. 911-927

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Optimally scheduling real world sports leagues by reduction to SAT

Horbach, Andrei; Bartsch, Thomas; Briskorn, Dirk - 2009

Several types of constraints must be satisfied by schedules of real world sports leagues, e. g. stadium unavailability, fixed matches, forbidden matches, minimum number of breaks. Taking into account such constraints, determining a feasible schedule becomes a challenging task. Usually, there is...

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A multi-objective programming model for nurse scheduling

Jlassi, Jihene; Mhamedi, Abedderrahman El; Chabchoub, Habib - In: International Journal of Logistics Economics and … 3 (2011) 2/3, pp. 89-101

programming (GP) model that accommodates both hard and soft constraints for a monthly planning horizon. The hard constraints … should be adhered to strictly, whereas the soft constraints can be violated when necessary. The relative importance values of … the soft constraints have been computed by the analytical hierarchy process (AHP), which are used as coefficients of the …

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