A real-world employee scheduling and routing application.

Hart, Emma; Sim, Kevin; Urquhart, Neil B

Abstract

We describe a hyper-heuristic application developed for a client to find quick, acceptable solutions to Workforce Schedul- ing and Routing problems. An interactive fitness function controlled by the user enables five different objectives to be weighted according to client preference. The application uses a real road network in order to calculate driving dis- tances between locations, and is designed to integrate with a web-based application to access employee calendars.

Citation

Hart, E., Sim, K., & Urquhart, N. B. (2014). A real-world employee scheduling and routing application. In C. Igel (Ed.), GECCO 2014 Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2014 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (1239-1242). https://doi.org/10.1145/2598394.2605447

• Conference Name: GECCO 2014
• Start Date: Jul 12, 2014
• End Date: Jul 16, 2014
• Publication Date: Jul 12, 2014
• Deposit Date: Jul 1, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: May 15, 2017
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 1239-1242
• Book Title: GECCO 2014 Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2014 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
• ISBN: 978-1-4503-2881-4
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2598394.2605447
• Keywords: Hyper-heuristic application; work-force scheduling; routing problems
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6900
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2598394.2605447