Nurse Scheduling with Joint Normalized Shift and Day-Off Preference Satisfaction Using a Genetic Algorithm with Immigrant Scheme

To make a fair and satisfactory nurse shift schedule, this paper proposes a novel preference satisfaction function, in which numbers of the preferred work shifts and days-off of the nursing staff are balanced, and ranks for preferences and number of the preference ranks satisfied so far are also con...

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Main Authors: Chun-Cheng Lin, Jia-Rong Kang, Ding-Jung Chiang, Chien-Liang Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi - SAGE Publishing 2015-07-01
Series:International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/595419