Article ID: | iaor1998881 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 429 |
End Page Number: | 437 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1997 |
Journal: | Discrete and Computational Geometry |
Authors: | Kleinschmidt P., Hefner A. |
Keywords: | personnel & manpower planning |
Certain manpower scheduling problems can be solved as weighted matching problems with additional constraints. A complete linear description of a polytope whose vertices correspond to such matchings is provided and how this can be used for solving more complex problems with a cutting plane procedure is described.