Nurse rostering using modified harmony search algorithm

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

Volumn 7077 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2011, Pages 27-37

  Awadallah, Mohammed A ^a   Khader, Ahamad Tajudin ^a   Al Betar, Mohammed Azmi ^a,b   Bolaji, Asaju La'aro ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^b AL ZAYTOONAH UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION METHOD; HARMONY SEARCH ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION DOMAIN; ROSTERING; SCHEDULING PROBLEM; MALAYSIA; MODIFIED HARMONY SEARCH ALGORITHMS; NADI; NURSE ROSTERING;

GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NURSING; OPTIMIZATION;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84555196583     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-27242-4_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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