Title :
A multi criteria meta-heuristic approach to nurse rostering
Author :
Burke, Edmund K. ; De Causmaecker, Patrick ; Petrovic, Sanja ; Berghe, Greet Vanden
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & IT, Nottingham Univ., UK
fDate :
6/24/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Users of hospital personnel planning software cope with the complex task of translating their needs into several constraints of a very different nature and with differing cost parameters. We present a multi criteria evolutionary approach, which overcomes some of the practical difficulties that personnel schedulers in hospitals often face
Keywords :
evolutionary computation; medical information systems; operations research; personnel; evolutionary approach; hospital personnel planning software cost parameters; multicriteria meta-heuristic approach; nurse rostering; Computer science; Costs; Expert systems; Genetic algorithms; Hospitals; Information technology; Medical services; Personnel; Qualifications; Simulated annealing;
Conference_Titel :
Evolutionary Computation, 2002. CEC '02. Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7282-4
DOI :
10.1109/CEC.2002.1004413
