A multi criteria meta-heuristic approach to nurse rostering

Users of hospital personnel planning software cope with the complex task of translating their needs into several constraints of a very different nature and with differing cost parameters. We present a multi criteria evolutionary approach, which overcomes some of the practical difficulties that personnel schedulers in hospitals often face.

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