Cutbacks in the number of associates, staff, and now partners along with reductions in salary, attempts to increase rates while delivering the same service, closing offices or hiring people just to ...

Employee scheduling aims to assign employees to shifts to satisfy daily workload and constraints. Some employee scheduling problems and their variants have been proven NP-hard, and a series of works ...

For most industries, complexity is considered a problem. It slows decisions. It confuses customers. It increases costs. It ...