An Analysis of the Application of the Harmony Search Algorithm to Solving the Nurse Rostering Problem.
The nurse rostering problem describes the task of distributing nurses over working time slots, called shifts, in such a way that the workforce demand for each shift in a scheduling period is met, while ensuring that each nurse is not overttasked or undertasked. This problem is a major issue in Ghana...
| Publicado en: | CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing Vol. 39; no. 5; pp. 281 - 289 |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
May/Jun2021
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