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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi - SAGE Publishing
2015-07-01
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Series: | International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/595419 |