Am 26. Februar lud das Institut für Business Analytics und Technology Transformation zum Vortrag „A Flexible Duty Rostering System for Physicians in Hospitals“ von Clemens Thielen, Professor für Optimierung und nachhaltige Entscheidungsfindung an der TU München, ein.

Folgend das Abstract des Vortrags auf Englisch: 

Physician rostering is an important task within personnel planning in hospitals and has a large impact both on the efficient operation of the hospital and on employee satisfaction. Good rosters should not only satisfy many complex constraints resulting, e.g., from minimum rest times or required staffing levels, but also achieve a fair distribution of the workload and adhere to the preferences of the planned personnel. Since the specific requirements and the structure of the duty rosters vary substantially between different departments and hospitals, no standardized software is available for roster generation and duty rosters are usually still generated manually in practice.

This talk presents a flexible, web-based duty rostering system for physicians created within the project "Ko-op Dienstplan" funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). The system and the underlying optimization model are based on collaborations with three departments from different German hospitals and are designed to handle the specific requirements for duty rosters that appear in each department. We present the general structure of the duty rostering problems faced in
the three departments and demonstrate the practical implementation of an integer-programming-based solution approach, which uses a customizable web interface to configure the optimization model, collect all necessary input data (e.g., physician preferences), and display the computed rosters.