Simulated annealing algorithm for scheduling problem in daily nursing cares

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1681-1687

  Cheng, Mingang ^a,b   Ozaku, Hiromi Itoh ^b   Kuwahara, Noriaki ^b,c   Kogure, Kiyoshi ^b   Ota, Jun ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^c KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Daily nursing care; Optimization; Scheduling; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVE; DAILY NURSING CARE; EFFICIENT SCHEDULING; JOB SHOP SCHEDULING PROBLEMS; LOCAL SEARCHING; NURSING CARE; SCHEDULING PROBLEM; SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHMS; SUBTASKS;

ANNEALING; CONTROL THEORY; CYBERNETICS; NURSING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 69949160381     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2008.4811530     Document Type: Conference Paper

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