A constraint programming based column generation approach to nurse rostering problems

A Hyperheuristic Approach to Belgian Nurse Rostering Problems

The nurse rostering problem involves the assignment of shifts to nurses with respect to several constraints like workload, legal restrictions, and contractual agreements [9]. The complexity of the problem attracts many researchers around the world. Since the regulations, requirements, and agreements differ from country to country, the models and solution methods differ as well [9]. The solution...

A Constraint Programming and Hybrid Approach to Nurse Rostering Problems

This paper describes a decision support methodologies for nurse rostering problem in a modern hospital environment. In particular, it is very important to efficiently utilise time and effort, to evenly balance the workload among people and to attempt to satisfy personnel preference. We presented a complete model to formulate all the complex real-world constraints, solution approach and Hybrid a...

An Integer Programming-Based Nurse Rostering System

This paper considers a real-world rostering problem at the Gold Coast Hospital, Queensland. Nurse rostering is a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) [3]. The task is to find a consistent allocation of shift values, for a group of nurses, over a fixed period of time, that satisfy a set of rostering constraints. These constraints include i) acceptable shift combinations (or schedules) for indiv...

Determining feature weights using a genetic algorithm in a case-based reasoning approach to personnel rostering

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...

A Column Generation Approach for the Cyclic and Non-cyclic Bus Driver Rostering Problems