An Estimation of Distribution Algorithm with Intelligent Local Search for Rule-based Nurse Rostering

This paper proposes a new memetic evolutionary algorithm to achieve explicit learning in rule-based nurse rostering, which involves applying a set of heuristic rules for each nurse's assignment. The main framework of the algorithm is an estimation of distribution algorithm, in which an ant-mine...

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Main Authors: Aickelin, Uwe, Burke, Edmund, Li, Jingpeng
Format: Article
Published: Palgrave 2007
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/655/