The nurse rostering problem involves assigning shifts to qualified personnel using a given timetable under some hard and soft constraints. In this study, the nurse rostering problem instance of the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Hospital is solved using a standard genetic algorithm. Currently, the rosters are being prepared by a head nurse who performs this tedious task by hand. Due to the existence of ma...

Personnel rostering problems are highly constrained resource allocation problems. Human rostering experts have many years of experience in making rostering decisions which reflect their individual goals and objectives. We present a novel method for capturing nurse rostering decisions and adapting them to solve new problems using the Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) paradigm. This method stores exampl...

Personnel rostering problems are highly constrained resource allocation problems. Human rostering experts have many years of experience in making rostering decisions which reflect their individual goals and objectives. We present a novel method for capturing nurse rostering decisions and adapting them to solve new problems using the Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) paradigm. This method stores exampl...

This paper presents an adaptive neighborhood search method (ANS) forsolving the nurse rostering problem proposed for the First InternationalNurse Rostering Competition (INRC-2010). ANS uses jointly two distinctneighborhood moves and adaptively switches among three intensificationand diversification search strategies according to the search history. Com-putational results ass...

Nurse scheduling is a topic widely studied due to its overall effect on patient care and hospital performance. This research focuses formulating Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) workforce model as nurse rostering problem. The incorporates multiple objectives of individual preference qualification. approached by categorizing nurses into different hierarchical levels based their qualifications pos...

Staff scheduling and rostering problems, with application in several application areas, from transportation systems to hospitals, have been widely addressed by researchers. This is not the case of hospitality services, which have been forgotten by the quantitative research literature. The purpose of this paper is to provide some insights on the application of staff scheduling and rostering prob...

Hospital personnel scheduling deals with a large number of constraints of a different nature, some of which need to be satisfied at all costs. It is, for example, unacceptable not to fully support patient care needs and therefore a sufficient number of skilled personnel has to be scheduled at any time. In addition to personnel coverage constraints, nurse rostering problems deal with time relate...