A Component Based Heuristic Search Method with AdaptivePerturbations 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 adaptive perturbations, for a nurse scheduling problem arising at a major UK hospital. The main idea behind this technique i...

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Main Authors: Li, Jingpeng, Aickelin, Uwe, Burke, Edmund
Format: Article
Published: 2006
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/646/