A component based heuristic search method with evolutionary eliminations for hospital personnel scheduling

Nurse rostering is a complex scheduling problem that affects hospital personnel on a daily basis all over the world. This paper presents a new component-based approach with evolutionary eliminations for a nurse scheduling problem arising at a major UK hospital. The main idea behind this technique is...

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Main Authors: Li, Jingpeng, Aickelin, Uwe, Burke, Edmund
Format: Article
Published: INFORMS 2008
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34111/