Healthcare scheduling in optimization context: a review

ZA Abdalkareem, A Amir, MA Al-Betar, P Ekhan… - Health and …, 2021 - Springer
This paper offers a summary of the latest studies on healthcare scheduling problems
including patients' admission scheduling problem, nurse scheduling problem, operation …

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 …

Improved branch-cut-and-price for capacitated vehicle routing

D Pecin, A Pessoa, M Poggi, E Uchoa - Mathematical Programming …, 2017 - Springer
The best performing exact algorithms for the capacitated vehicle routing problem developed
in the last 10 years are based in the combination of cut and column generation. Some …

New enhancements for the exact solution of the vehicle routing problem with time windows

D Pecin, C Contardo, G Desaulniers… - INFORMS Journal on …, 2017 - pubsonline.informs.org
The vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) consists of finding least-cost
vehicle routes to satisfy the demands of customers that can be visited within specific time …

A hybrid fix-and-optimize and simulated annealing approaches for nurse rostering problem

AM Turhan, B Bilgen - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Nurse Rostering Problem (NRP) is a complex scheduling problem in which
nurses must be assigned to shifts according to a set of constraints. The NRP is difficult to …

A hybrid artificial bee colony for a nurse rostering problem

MA Awadallah, AL Bolaji, MA Al-Betar - Applied Soft Computing, 2015 - Elsevier
The nurse rostering problem (NRP) is a combinatorial optimization problem tackled by
assigning a set of shifts to a set of nurses, each has specific skills and work contract, to a …

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 …

A hyper-heuristic approach based upon a hidden Markov model for the multi-stage nurse rostering problem

A Kheiri, A Gretsista, E Keedwell, G Lulli… - Computers & operations …, 2021 - Elsevier
The importance of the nurse rostering problem in complex healthcare environments should
not be understated. The nurses in a hospital should be assigned to the most appropriate …

A scenario-based robust optimization with a pessimistic approach for nurse rostering problem

MR Hassani, J Behnamian - Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 2021 - Springer
Nurse rostering problem (NRP) or nurse scheduling problem is a combinatorial optimization
problem that involves the assignment of shifts to nurses while managing coverage …

[HTML][HTML] Hybrid elitist-ant system for nurse-rostering problem

GM Jaradat, A Al-Badareen, M Ayob… - Journal of King Saud …, 2019 - Elsevier
The diversity and quality of high-quality and diverse-solution external memory of the hybrid
Elitist-Ant System is examined in this study. The Elitist-Ant System incorporates an external …