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 …

We provide a comprehensive overview of the typical decisions to be made in resource
capacity planning and control in health care, and a structured review of relevant articles from …

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 …

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 …

The health care system in Sweden and many other countries is facing increasing costs. The
major reason is the changing age distribution of the population with more elderly people in …

The purpose of this paper is to present a new methodology for scheduling nurses in which
several conflicting factors guide the decision process. Unlike manufacturing facilities where …

The efficient and effective management of nursing personnel is of critical importance in a
hospital's environment comprising a vast share of the operational costs. The adopted nurse …

We study the problem of integrated staffing and scheduling under demand uncertainty. This
problem is formulated as a two-stage stochastic integer program with mixed-integer …

Faced with diminishing government subsidies, competition, and the increasing influence of
managed care, hospitals are under enormous pressure to cut costs. In response to these …