M. Kress et B. Golany, OPTIMIZING THE ASSIGNMENT OF AIRCREWS TO AIRCRAFT IN AN AIRLIFT OPERATION, European journal of operational research, 77(3), 1994, pp. 475-485
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8
Categorie Soggetti
Management,"Operatione Research & Management Science
The problems of constructing flight crew schedules, in the military as
well as in the civilian arena, are usually so complex that efficient
heuristics rather than optimal solutions are sought. For a special cas
e of an airlift operation, this paper provides a simple exact algorith
m to determine the minimal number of crews required to be stationed at
the various bases where the operation takes place. The paper also ind
icates, and illustrates via a simple example, how this algorithm can s
erve as the basis for some heuristics which will address the more comp
lex crew scheduling problems.