This paper presents a review of staff scheduling and rostering, an area that has become
increasingly important as business becomes more service oriented and cost conscious in a …

Nurse rostering is a complex scheduling problem that affects hospital personnel on a daily
basis all over the world. The need for quality software solutions is acute for a number of …

Chapter 4 GENETIC ALGORITHMS Page 1 Chapter 4 GENETIC ALGORITHMS Kumara Sastry,
David Goldberg University of Illinois, USA Graham Kendall University of Nottingham, UK 4.1 …

The concept of a hyperheuristic is introduced as an approach that operates at a higher lever
of abstraction than current metaheuristic approaches. The hyperheuristic manages the …

Hospitals need to repeatedly produce duty rosters for its nursing staff. The good scheduling
of nurses has impact on the quality of health care, the recruitment of nurses, the …

Computational methods for rostering and personnel scheduling has been a subject of
continued research and commercial interest since the 1950s. This annotated bibliography …

Hyperheuristics can be defined to be heuristics which choose between heuristics in order to
solve a given optimisation problem. The main motivation behind the development of such …

This paper presents a hybrid multi-objective model that combines integer programming (IP)
and variable neighbourhood search (VNS) to deal with highly-constrained nurse rostering …

To the best of our knowledge, this paper describes the first ant colony optimization (ACO)
approach applied to nurse scheduling, analyzing a dynamic regional problem which is …

A common problem at hospitals is the extreme variation in daily (even hourly) workload
pressure for nurses. The operating room is considered to be the main engine and hence the …