The problem of finding a high quality timetable for personnel in a hospital ward has been addressed by many researchers, personnel managers and schedulers over a number of years. ...
Edmund K. Burke, Patrick De Causmaecker, Sanja Pet...
Work allocation planning is a vital and notoriously difficult task in areas characterised by large work forces, contiguous and sometimes overlapping shifts, regulatory and corpora...
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 sim...
Many real-world constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) can be over-constrained but contain a set of mandatory or hard constraints that have to be satisfied for a solution to be ac...
1 In most real world optimization problems several optimization goals have to be considered in parallel. For this reason, there has been a growing interest in Multi-Objective Optim...