Employee Tour Scheduling Problem

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Employee scheduling problems generally relate to the planning of employees' work schedules to satisfy certain requirement(s) while seeking to reach certain optimal business goals. Here the requirement is likely to be the service demands, and the business goals are usually cost related, like minimizing the cost.

A tour in the employee scheduling context is usually a weekly schedule and is a repeatable work schedule for an employee. The employee tour scheduling problem concern the generation of the working tours to satisfy the service demands while minimizing the workforce cost.