A column generation-based approach to solve the preference scheduling problem for nurses with downgrading

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 193-213

  Bard, Jonathan F ^a   Purnomo, Hadi W ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Column generation; Downgrading; Integer programming; Nurse scheduling; Preference scheduling

Indexed keywords

HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER; LABOR SUPPLY; PLANNING METHOD;

EID: 12144279495     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2004.04.001     Document Type: Article

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