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Title: |
A Study Of Cost Effective
Scheduling Of Nurses Based On The Domain Transformation Method |
Authors: |
Geetha Baskaran, Andrzej
Bargiela, Rong Qu |
Published in: |
(2013).ECMS 2013 Proceedings edited
by: W. Rekdalsbakken, R. T. Bye, H. Zhang European Council for Modeling
and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2013 ISBN:
978-0-9564944-6-7 27th
European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Aalesund, Norway, May 27th –
30th, 2013 |
Citation
format: |
Geetha Baskaran,
Andrzej Bargiela, Rong Qu (2013). A Study Of Cost
Effective Scheduling Of Nurses Based On The Domain Transformation Method, ECMS 2013 Proceedings edited by: W. Rekdalsbakken, R. T. Bye, H. Zhang, European Council for Modeling
and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2013-0309 |
DOI: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2013-0309 |
Abstract: |
This paper discusses and
analyses the tradeoff between the flexibility afforded with greater number of
staff and the implied cost of employing extra staff in the context of the
nurse-scheduling problem. If the number of staff is constant, our study
allows quantification of the degree of pressure put on the staff resulting
from the schedules that do not satisfy their preferences for shift allocation.
We present a practical approach, based on our domain transformation
methodology that achieves good quality schedules without high computational requirements. |
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