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SEAL
1998
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A Hybrid Tabu Search Algorithm for the Nurse Rostering Problem
Abstract. This paper deals with the problem of nurse rostering in Belgian hospitals. This is a highly constrained real world problem that was (until the results of this research we...
Edmund K. Burke, Patrick De Causmaecker, Greet Van...
TEC
2010
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12 years 11 months ago
A Hybrid Evolutionary Approach to the Nurse Rostering Problem
Nurse rostering is a difficult search problem with many constraints. In the literature, a number of approaches have been investigated including penalty function methods to tackle t...
Ruibin Bai, Edmund K. Burke, Graham Kendall, Jingp...
EOR
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
A hybrid heuristic ordering and variable neighbourhood search for the nurse rostering problem
Edmund K. Burke, Timothy Curtois, Gerhard F. Post,...
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
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 sim...
Uwe Aickelin, Kathryn A. Dowsland