An Indirect Genetic Algorithm for a Nurse Scheduling Problem

This paper describes a Genetic Algorithms approach to a manpower-scheduling problem arising at a major UK hospital. Although Genetic Algorithms have been successfully used for similar problems in the past, they always had to overcome the limitations of the classical Genetic Algorithms paradigm in ha...

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Main Authors: Aickelin, Uwe, Dowsland, Kathryn
Format: Article
Published: 2004
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/661/