Scalable load balancing in nurse to patient assignment problems

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

Volumn 5547 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 248-262

  Schaus, Pierre ^a   Van Hentenryck, Pascal ^b   Régin, Jean Charles ^c  

^a Dynadec   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS; CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING; DECOMPOSITION TECHNIQUE; GLOBAL CONSTRAINTS; LINEAR MODEL; LOAD-BALANCING; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM; SIDE CONSTRAINTS;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; NURSING; PLASMA WAVES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 69849086854     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01929-6_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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