Finding the Perfect Shift Schedule

Abstract

Finding a working shift schedule can be a tedious task, there’s usually various requirements to juggle all at once, from time-offs, shift types, conflicting schedules, to personal preferences; and one may easily miss a requirement or two by mistake. Instead, we can use so called “solvers” and leave the hard lifting up to computer to find not just a valid schedule, but a good one; and as it turns out, the same technique also works for a broad spectrum of problems such as conference scheduling, vehicle routing, bin packing, and more.

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