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- For each row of the matrix, find the smallest element and subtract it from every element in its row.
- Do the same (as step 1) for all columns.
- Cover all zeros in the matrix using minimum number of horizontal and vertical lines.
- Test for Optimality: If the minimum number of covering lines is n, an optimal assignment is possible and we are finished. Else if lines are lesser than n, we haven’t found the optimal assignment, and must proceed to step 5.
- Determine the smallest entry not covered by any line. Subtract this entry from each uncovered row, and then add it to each covered column. Return to step 3.
Try it before moving to see the solution
Explanation for above simple example:
An example that doesn’t lead to optimal value in first attempt: In the above example, the first check for optimality did give us solution. What if we the number covering lines is less than n.
Time complexity : O(n^3), where n is the number of workers and jobs. This is because the algorithm implements the Hungarian algorithm, which is known to have a time complexity of O(n^3).
Space complexity : O(n^2), where n is the number of workers and jobs. This is because the algorithm uses a 2D cost matrix of size n x n to store the costs of assigning each worker to a job, and additional arrays of size n to store the labels, matches, and auxiliary information needed for the algorithm.
In the next post, we will be discussing implementation of the above algorithm. The implementation requires more steps as we need to find minimum number of lines to cover all 0’s using a program. References: http://www.math.harvard.edu/archive/20_spring_05/handouts/assignment_overheads.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQDZNHwuuOY
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Companies that manage extensive operations, which require assigning people and resources to tasks at specific times, need to solve difficult scheduling problems on a regular basis. Here are a couple of examples of such problems:
- Schedule employees in multiple shifts, subject to a complex set of constraints and staffing requirements.
- Schedule a manufacturing process that involves performing many tasks on a limited set of machines, each of which can do only one task at a time.
OR-Tools provides powerful techniques for solving problems like these. The following sections illustrate some scheduling problems and their solutions.
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Learn how to use Linear Programming to solve Staff Scheduling problems.
As Senior operation manager, your job is to optimize scarce resources, improve productivity, reduce cost and maximize profit. For example, scheduling workers’ shifts for the most effective utilization of manpower. We need to consider the various restrictions of the total working hours of each employee, the number of shifts, shift hours, and other constraints. Such a problem can be considered an optimization problem.
Staff or workforce scheduling is used in numerous use-cases like nurse staff scheduling in a hospital, air flight scheduling, staff scheduling in the hotel, and scheduling of drivers. Such schedules can be created based on various time periods like hours, days, weeks, and months. Various organizations use spreadsheets and software. Poorly managed schedule causes overlapping of employee allocation, no breaks between shifts. Ultimately it will cause poor employee performance. For effective workforce scheduling, we need to consider the number of constraints and formulate them in the right manner. Workforce scheduling will help in effective human resource utilization, balanced timing, balanced workload, reduce employee fatigue and give importance to individual preferences ( link ).
Linear programming is a mathematical model for optimizing the linear function. We can achieve the best results using linear programming for a given specific set of constraints. Linear programming is widely used in management and economic science problems such as production planning, network routing, resource scheduling, and resource allocation. Linear programming can also be helpful in scheduling human resources. Such type of problem is known as Staff Scheduling or Workforce Scheduling problems.
In this tutorial, we are going to cover the following topics:
Staff Scheduling Problem
In this problem, a saloon owner wants to determine the schedule for staff members. The staff consists of the full-time shift of 9 hours and part-time shift of 3 hours. The saloon’s opening hours are divided into 4 shifts of 3 hours each. In each shift, different levels of demands are there that need the different number of staff members in each shift.
The required number of nurses for each shift is mentioned in the below table:
There is at least 1 full-time employee we need in each shift. The full-time employee will get $150 for 9 hours shift and the part-time employee will get $45 per shift.
Modeling Linear Programming Using Python PuLP
PuLP is an open-source library in Python for solving linear programming problems. In order to solve linear programming problems using PuLP, we need to formulate the objective function. PuLP will optimize to maximize or minimize the objective function. PuLP modeling process has the following steps for solving LP problems:
- Initialize Model
Define Decision Variable
Define objective function, define the constraints.
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Understand the problem
Decision Variables
x i = Number of full-time employees scheduled in shift i.
y i = number of part-time employees scheduled in shift i.
Objective Function:
minimize Z= 150( x 0 + x 1 + x 2 + x 3 ) + 45( y 0 + y 1 + y 2 + y 3 )
Constraints 1:
- Employee starting shift constraints
x 0 + y 0 ≥ 6
x 0 + x 1 + y 1 ≥ 8
x 1 + x 2 + y 2 ≥ 11
x 2 + x 3 + y 3 ≥ 6
Constraints 2:
- Minimum full-time employees during any shift/period
Initialize LP Model
In this step, we will import all the classes and functions of pulp module and create a Minimization LP problem using LpProblem class.
In this step, we will define the decision variables. In our problem, we have three variables wood tables, chairs, and bookcases. Let’s create them using LpVariable.dicts() class. LpVariable.dicts() used with Python’s list comprehension. LpVariable.dicts() will take the following four values:
- First, prefix name of what this variable represents.
- Second is the list of all the variables.
- Third is the lower bound on this variable.
- Fourth variable is the upper bound.
- Fourth is essentially the type of data (discrete or continuous). The options for the fourth parameter are LpContinuous or LpInteger .
In this step, we will define the minimum objective function by adding it to the LpProblem object. lpSum(vector) is used here to define multiple linear expressions. It also used list comprehension to add multiple variables.
In this code, we have summed up the two variables(full-time and part-time) list values in an additive fashion.
Here, we are adding two types of constraints: employee starting shift constraints and minimum full-time employees during any period. We have added the 4 constraints defined in the problem by adding them to the LpProblem object.
Solve Model
In this step, we will solve the LP problem by calling solve() method. We can print the final value by using the following for loop.
In this article, we have learned about Staff Scheduling problems, Problem Formulation, and implementation in the python PuLp library. We have solved the staff scheduling problem using a Linear programming problem in Python. Of course, this is just a simple case study, we can add more constraints to it and make it more complicated. In upcoming articles, we will write more on different optimization problems and its solution using Python. You can revise the basics of mathematical concepts in this article and learn about Linear Programming in this article .
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Solution 1: Brute Force. We generate n! possible job assignments and for each such assignment, we compute its total cost and return the less expensive assignment. Since the solution is a permutation of the n jobs, its complexity is O (n!). Solution 2: Hungarian Algorithm. The optimal assignment can be found using the Hungarian algorithm.
The problem is to assign each worker to at most one task, with no two workers performing the same task, while minimizing the total cost. Since there are more workers than tasks, one worker will not be assigned a task. MIP solution. The following sections describe how to solve the problem using the MPSolver wrapper. Import the libraries
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