Review of harmony search with respect to algorithm structure

T Zhang, ZW Geem - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2019 - Elsevier
Harmony Search (HS) is a metaheuristic optimisation algorithm inspired by musical
improvisation. So far it has been applied to various optimisation problems, and there are …

Harmony search: Current studies and uses on healthcare systems

MT Abdulkhaleq, TA Rashid, A Alsadoon… - Artificial Intelligence in …, 2022 - Elsevier
One of the popular metaheuristic search algorithms is Harmony Search (HS). It has been
verified that HS can find solutions to optimization problems due to its balanced exploratory …

A hybrid integer and constraint programming approach to solve nurse rostering problems

E Rahimian, K Akartunalı, J Levine - Computers & Operations Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Nurse Rostering Problem can be defined as assigning a series of shift
sequences (schedules) to several nurses over a planning horizon according to some …

The harmony search algorithm with additional improvement of harmony memory for asymmetric traveling salesman problem

U Boryczka, K Szwarc - Expert Systems with Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
This article constitutes the continuation of the work on adapting the Harmony Search
algorithm to effectively solve the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem (ATSP) instances …

Operations research in global health: a sco** review with a focus on the themes of health equity and impact

BD Bradley, T Jung, A Tandon-Verma, B Khoury… - Health research policy …, 2017 - Springer
Background Operations research (OR) is a discipline that uses advanced analytical methods
(eg simulation, optimisation, decision analysis) to better understand complex systems and …

A two-stage heuristic algorithm for the nurse scheduling problem with fairness objective on weekend workload under different shift designs

X Zhong, J Zhang, X Zhang - IISE transactions on healthcare …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Nurse rostering is a complex scheduling problem which requires the assignment of various
shifts to different types of registered nurses and is subject to a set of constraints …

[PDF][PDF] Annealing Harmony Search Algorithm to Solve the Nurse Rostering Problem.

M Hadwan - Computers, Materials & Continua, 2022 - researchgate.net
A real-life problem is the rostering of nurses at hospitals. It is a famous nondeterministic,
polynomial time (NP)-hard combinatorial optimization problem. Handling the real-world …

[PDF][PDF] Challenges for nurse rostering problem and opportunities in hospital logistics

D Simić, S Simić, D Milutinović… - Journal of Medical …, 2014 - bibliotekanauki.pl
In the last 45 years nurse scheduling has received considerable attention in the research
community. Nurse rostering can be described as a task of finding a duty roster for a set of …

[PDF][PDF] Revisión de literatura sobre los modelos de optimización en programación de turnos de enfermería

J Arias-Osorio, DK Bautista… - Revista UIS Ingenierías, 2019 - redalyc.org
Dado que la programación de turnos de enfermería (NSP) es un componente esencial en la
calidad del servicio de salud, y debido al gran número de investigaciones desarrolladas …

Neural networked assisted tree search for the personnel rostering problem

Z Chen, P De Causmaecker, Y Dou - arxiv preprint arxiv:2010.14252, 2020 - arxiv.org
The personnel rostering problem is the problem of finding an optimal way to assign
employees to shifts, subject to a set of hard constraints which all valid solutions must follow …