The importance of the nurse rostering problem in complex healthcare environments should not be understated. nurses a hospital assigned to most appropriate shifts and days so as meet demands well satisfy requirements requests much possible. Nurse represents challenging demanding combinatorial optimisation problem. To address it, general efficient methodologies, such selection hyper-heuristics, h...

Efficient utilization of time and effort is essential in Personnel scheduling problems to evenly balance the workload among the people and attempt to satisfy the personnel preferences. In Constraint Satisfaction Problem based scheduling problems, when a branch of the search fails the backtracking search algorithm back up to the preceding variable and try a different value for it. So here the mo...

The Nurse Rostering Problem is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization, scheduling problem for assigning a set of nurses to shifts per day by considering both hard and soft constraints. A novel metaheuristic technique is required for solving Nurse Rostering Problem (NRP). This work proposes a metaheuristic technique called Directed Bee Colony Optimization Algorithm using the Modified Nelder-Mead ...

Constructing timetables of work for personnel in healthcare institutions is a highly constrained and difficult problem to solve. In this chapter, we will present an overview of our development of the algorithms that underpin a commercial nurse rostering decision support system that is in use in over 40 hospitals in Belgium. As such, we are particularly concerned with the real world regulations ...

The optimisation of the nurse rostering problem is chosen in this work due to its importance as an optimisation challenge with an availability to improve the organisation in hospitals duties, also due to its relevance to elevate the health care through an enhancement of the quality in a decision making process. Nurse rostering in the real world is naturally difficult and complex problem. It con...

Constructing duty schedules for nurses at large hospitals is a difficult problem. The objective is usually to ensure that there is always sufficient staff on duty, while taking into account individual preferences with respect to work patterns, requests for leave and financial restrictions, in such a way that all employees are treated fairly. The problem is typically solved via mixed integer pro...