Creating resident shift schedules under multiple objectives by generating and evaluating the Pareto frontier

We present an integer programming-based approach embedded within a recursive algorithm to generate these schedules. We then present both computational results to assess the tractability of our approach and a case study, based on a real-world scheduling problem at the University of Michigan Pediatric Emergency Department, to study how a Chief Resident would evaluate the Pareto set.
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research