Title: Seafaring staff scheduling

Authors: Mohamed Haykal Ammar; Mounir Benaissa; Habib Chabchoub

Addresses: LOGIQ Laboratory, ISGI Sfax, University of Sfax, P.O. Box 166, Cité Bourguiba 3094 Sfax, Tunisia ' OASIS Laboratory, ENIT Tunis, University of Sfax, ISGIS-Pôle technologique de Sfax, Route de Tunis Km 10, 3021 Sfax, Tunisia ' MEDOR Laboratory, IHEC Sfax, University of Sfax, ISB Route de Tunis Km 10, Cité El Ons-Technopôle, 3021 Sfax, Tunisia

Abstract: This paper treats a problem of sealing teams' scheduling where the equity between them is the main objective specifically at the level of journeys bonuses which varies for each occupied post. Indeed, there are three types of posts: permanent posts, special posts which are booked for fuels and hazardous goods transportation and reinforcement posts if needed. The interval of weekly rest hours and the interval of hours between consecutive posts present an important criterion for the problem. We provide a mathematical formulation of the problem based on the goal programming in which we adapt an analytical hierarchy process method to determine weights of various objectives. Also, we provide the adaptation of the GRASP method to resolve the real cases. It is worth mentioning that we used a real data of a Tunisian company called SONOTRAK.

Keywords: staff scheduling; seafaring staff; marine transport; goal programming; analytical hierarchical process; AHP; greedy randomised adaptative search procedure; GRASP; operations management; Tunisia; human resources; human resource scheduling.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSOM.2014.065334

International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 2014 Vol.19 No.2, pp.229 - 249

Published online: 31 Oct 2014 *

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