Manpower Allocation with Time Windows and Job-Teaming Constraints

In this work, we study manpower allocation with time windows and job-teaming constraints. A set of jobs at dispersed locations requires teams of different types of workers where each job must be carried out in a preestablished time window and requires a specific length of time for completion. A job...

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Main Authors: LI, Yanzhi, LIM, Andrew, RODRIGUES, Brian
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/2615
https://doi.org/10.1002/nav.20075
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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Summary:In this work, we study manpower allocation with time windows and job-teaming constraints. A set of jobs at dispersed locations requires teams of different types of workers where each job must be carried out in a preestablished time window and requires a specific length of time for completion. A job is satisfied if the required composite team can be brought together at the job's location for the required duration within the job's time window. The objective is to minimize a weighted sum of the total number of workers and the total traveling time. We show that construction heuristics used with simulated annealing is a good approach to solving this NP-hard problem. In experiments, this approach is compared with solutions found using CPLEX and with lower bounds obtained from a network flow model.