Building better nurse scheduling algorithms

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 128, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 159-177

  Aickelin, Uwe ^a   White, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolutionary algorithms; Integer programming; Nurse scheduling; Statistical comparison method

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043060936     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ANOR.0000019103.31340.a6     Document Type: Article

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