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CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
2008
Springer
This paper describes a Genetic Algorithms approach to a manpower-scheduling problem arising at a major UK hospital. Although Genetic Algorithms have been successfully used for sim...
CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
2008
Springer
During our earlier research, it was recognised that in order to be successful with an indirect genetic algorithm approach using a decoder, the decoder has to strike a balance betw...
CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
2008
Springer
Scheduling problems are generally NP-hard combinatorial problems, and a lot of research has been done to solve these problems heuristically. However, most of the previous approach...
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 9 days ago
2004
Springer
Two ideas taken from Bayesian optimization and classifier systems are presented for personnel scheduling based on choosing a suitable scheduling rule from a set for each person’s...
SEAL
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
1998
Springer
Abstract. This paper deals with the problem of nurse rostering in Belgian hospitals. This is a highly constrained real world problem that was (until the results of this research we...