A hybrid tabu search algorithm for the nurse rostering problem

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

Volumn 1585, Issue , 1999, Pages 187-194

  Burke, Edmund ^a   De Causmaecker, Patrick ^b   Berghe, Greet Vanden ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Procestechnieken en Bedrijfsbeleid ^*

^c ODISEE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Nurse rostering; Personnel scheduling; Tabu search

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; HOSPITALS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; TABU SEARCH;

CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING; FEASIBLE SOLUTION; HYBRID TABU SEARCH; LINEAR PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES; NURSE ROSTERING; OVER-CONSTRAINED; REAL-WORLD PROBLEM; WORK REGULATIONS;

NURSING;

EID: 84956861632     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48873-1_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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