An evaluation of certain heuristic optimization algorithms in scheduling medical doctors and medical students

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3867 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 105-115

  White, Christine A ^a   Nano, Emilina ^b   Nguyen Ngoc, Diem Hang ^b   White, George M ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOSPITALS; OPTIMIZATION; PERSONNEL TRAINING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING;

EXECUTION TIME; HEURISTIC OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; MEDICAL DOCTORS;

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 38549111836     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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