A Parameter-Free Hyperheuristic for Scheduling a Sales Summit

Personnel scheduling involves scheduling people to timeslots and possibly locations. This problem remains the subject of much research interest with a survey in every decade since the 1970’s [2, 8, 4]. Several models including Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) [6], mathematical programming (linear programming, 0-1 integer programming etc.) [3], and different solution methods (exact [3] or heuristic based [1]) have been proposed to tackle this problem. Also several applications have been reported in the literature including applications for hospital personnel [1], educational institution personnel [7] and others.