FEATURES OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A SLIDING THREE-SHIFT WORK SCHEDULE WITH MINIZINC
The work is devoted to the preparation of multi-shift sliding scales of employees' work. The advantages of sliding charts of work, as well as the main methods of scheduling of this type are considered. The paper considers a practical example of a three- shift sliding schedule for seven employees. The complexity of the generation of this schedule is due to the need to consider additional wishes and requirements of employees. For example, some of the employees are on vacation, while other employees can be assigned mandatory shifts and mandatory non-working shifts. For the schedule to work, the zero employee must have all day shifts free on Mondays as he / she is the group leader and is must to attend at the meeting at the head office of the company at this time. A comparison between the schedule generated in manual mode and the schedule generated by the specialized modeling language of constraints MiniZinc, which confirmed the prospects of using the modeling language of constraints MiniZinc to generate multi-shift sliding graphs of employees. In cases when it is necessary to generate graphs of a larger scale, for example, for a larger number of employees, the complexity of forming a sliding graph increases and in this case the use of the MiniZinc modeling language for its creation is reasonable, and under certain conditions even necessary