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CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Springer
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...
CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Springer
During our earlier research, it was recognised that in order to be successful with an indirect genetic algorithm approach using a decoder, the decoder has to strike a balance betw...
CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Springer
Scheduling problems are generally NP-hard combinatorial problems, and a lot of research has been done to solve these problems heuristically. However, most of the previous approach...
PPSN
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
Two ideas taken from Bayesian optimization and classifier systems are presented for personnel scheduling based on choosing a suitable scheduling rule from a set for each person’s...
SEAL
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
1998
Springer
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...