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...
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...
Abstract. This paper presents a hybridization of a Constraint Programming (CP) model and search techniques with Local Search (LS) and some ideas borrowed from Genetic Algorithms (G...
Louis-Martin Rousseau, Gilles Pesant, Michel Gendr...