This paper presents a review of staff scheduling and rostering, an area that has become
increasingly important as business becomes more service oriented and cost conscious in a …

Nurse rostering is a complex scheduling problem that affects hospital personnel on a daily
basis all over the world. The need for quality software solutions is acute for a number of …

Variable neighborhood search (VNS) is a metaheuristic for solving combinatorial and global
optimization problems whose basic idea is a systematic change of neighborhood both within …

The concept of a hyperheuristic is introduced as an approach that operates at a higher lever
of abstraction than current metaheuristic approaches. The hyperheuristic manages the …

Hospitals need to repeatedly produce duty rosters for its nursing staff. The good scheduling
of nurses has impact on the quality of health care, the recruitment of nurses, the …

Computational methods for rostering and personnel scheduling has been a subject of
continued research and commercial interest since the 1950s. This annotated bibliography …

Hyperheuristics can be defined to be heuristics which choose between heuristics in order to
solve a given optimisation problem. The main motivation behind the development of such …

Home health care, ie visiting and nursing patients in their homes, is a growing sector in the
medical service business. From a staff rostering point of view, the problem is to find a …

Over the last 15 years, hundreds of papers presenting applications of tabu search, a
heuristic method originally proposed by (1986), to various combinatorial problems have …

The purpose of this paper is to present a new methodology for scheduling nurses in which
several conflicting factors guide the decision process. Unlike manufacturing facilities where …