A survey of the nurse rostering solution methodologies: The state-of-the-art and emerging trends

CM Ngoo, SL Goh, NR Sabar, S Abdullah… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an overview of recent advances for the Nurse Rostering Problem (NRP)
based on methodological papers published between 2012 to 2021. It provides a …

Learning constraints from examples

L De Raedt, A Passerini, S Teso - … of the AAAI conference on artificial …, 2018 - ojs.aaai.org
While constraints are ubiquitous in artificial intelligence and constraints are also commonly
used in machine learning and data mining, the problem of learning constraints from …

First-order linear programming in a column generation-based heuristic approach to the nurse rostering problem

P Strandmark, Y Qu, T Curtois - Computers & Operations Research, 2020 - Elsevier
A heuristic method based on column generation is presented for the nurse rostering
problem. The method differs significantly from an exact column generation approach or a …

Cooperative search for fair nurse rosters

S Martin, D Ouelhadj, P Smet, GV Berghe… - Expert Systems with …, 2013 - Elsevier
The development of decision support systems acceptable for nurse rostering practitioners
still presents a daunting challenge. Building on an existing nurse rostering problem, a set of …

[HTML][HTML] On the complexity of nurse rostering problems

SJM den Hartog, H Hoogeveen… - Operations Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract In Nurse Rostering problems the goal is to assign nurses to shifts, subject to a
number of constraints. In this paper we consider the computational complexity of such …

[PDF][PDF] Acquiring integer programs from data

M Kumar - Proceedings of the twenty-eighth international joint …, 2019 - lirias.kuleuven.be
Integer programming (IP) is widely used within operations research to model and solve
complex combinatorial problems such as personnel rostering and assignment problems …

Automating personnel rostering by learning constraints using tensors

M Kumar, S Teso, P De Causmaecker… - 2019 IEEE 31st …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many problems in operations research require that constraints be specified in the model.
Determining right constraints is a hard and laborsome task. We propose an approach to …

Facilitating the transition from manual to automated nurse rostering

M Mihaylov, P Smet, W Van Den Noortgate… - Health …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
After several decades of academic research in the field of automated nurse rostering, few
results find their way to practice. Often, the configuration of a software system for automated …

A tool-supported framework for work planning on construction sites based on constraint programming

A Camacho, PC Cañizares, S Estévez… - Automation in …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a framework taking advantage of the capabilities of current constraint
solvers to plan the work on construction sites. It combines different constraints under a …

A memetic algorithm with recovery scheme for nurse preference scheduling

CC Lin, JR Kang, TH Hsu - Journal of Industrial and Production …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The previous works on designing evolutionary algorithm for nurse preference scheduling
problems hardly realized that too many strict constraints on nurse preferences adopted at …