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Scheduling of plant maintenance personnel

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Given (i) a set of maintenance jobs to be processed over a fixed time horizon, (ii) the breakdown of each job into finite time intervals in which the skills required are known, and (iii) the pool of available manpower for each skill type over the horizon, we formulate and solve the problem of scheduling personnel and jobs to minimize personnel idle time, by integer programming.

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  1. IBM Palo Alto Scientific Center, Palo Alto, California

    S. M. Roberts (Advisory Analyst) & L. F. Escudero (Advisory Analyst)

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Roberts, S.M., Escudero, L.F. Scheduling of plant maintenance personnel. J Optim Theory Appl 39, 323–343 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00934541

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