Industrial Engineering and Management Systems

Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers (대한산업공학회)
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A Case Study of Human Resource Allocation for Effective Hotel Management

  • Murakami, Kayoko (School of Arts and Sciences Shibaura Institute of Technology Saitama) ;
  • Tasan, Seren Ozmehmet (Department of Industrial Engineering Dokuz Eylul University Bornova) ;
  • Gen, Mitsuo (Fuzzy Logic Systems Institute Izuka) ;
  • Oyabu, Takashi (Graduate School of Strategic Management Kanazawa Seiryo University Kanazawa)
  • Received : 2011.01.17
  • Accepted : 2011.02.21
  • Published : 2011.03.01
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to optimally allocate the human resources to tasks while minimizing the total daily human resource costs and smoothing the human resource usage. The human resource allocation problem (hRAP) under consideration contains two kinds of special constraints, i.e. operational precedence and skill constraints in addition to the ordinary constraints. To deal with the multiple objectives and the special constraints, first we designed this hRAP as a network problem and then proposed a Pareto multistage decisionbased genetic algorithm (P-mdGA). During the evolutionary process of P-mdGA, a Pareto evaluation procedure called generalized Pareto-based scale-independent fitness function approach is used to evaluate the solutions. Additionally, in order to improve the performance of P-mdGA, we use fuzzy logic controller for fine-tuning of genetic parameters. Finally, in order to demonstrate the applicability and to evaluate the performance of the proposed approach, P-mdGA is applied to solve a case study in a hotel, where the managers usually need helpful automatic support for effectively allocating hotel staff to hotel tasks.

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