Application of a Genetic Algorithm to staff scheduling in retail sector
by Saeed Zolfaghari, Vinh Quan, Ahmed El-Bouri, Maryam Khashayardoust
International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IJISE), Vol. 5, No. 1, 2010

Abstract: A Genetic Algorithm (GA) is developed for the retail staff scheduling problem. The proposed algorithm is implemented and compared with a conventional integer programming branch-and-bound approach. The performance of the algorithm is tested on six real-world problems. A sensitivity analysis is carried out on three problems for two genetic parameters: population size and mutation rate. Using statistical analysis, the effects of these parameters on the solution quality and computational times are studied. The comparative study shows that GA can produce near-optimal solutions for all of the test problems, and for half of them, it is more successful than the branch-and-bound method.

Online publication date: Wed, 02-Dec-2009

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