NURSE SCHEDULING BY COOPERATIVE GA WITH VARIABLE MUTATION OPERATOR

Shin-ya Uneme, Hikaru Kawano, Makoto Ohki

2008

Abstract

This paper proposes an effective mutation operator for the cooperative genetic algorithm (CGA) to solve a nurse scheduling problem. The nurse scheduling is very complex task for a clinical director in a general hospital. Even veteran director requires one or two weeks to create the schedule. Besides, we extend the nurse schedule to permit the change of the schedule. This permission has explosively increased computation time for the nurse scheduling. We propose the new mutation operator to solve the problem. The CGA with the new mutation operator has brought surprising effective results.

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in Harvard Style

Uneme S., Kawano H. and Ohki M. (2008). NURSE SCHEDULING BY COOPERATIVE GA WITH VARIABLE MUTATION OPERATOR . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-37-1, pages 249-252. DOI: 10.5220/0001694802490252


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis08,
author={Shin-ya Uneme and Hikaru Kawano and Makoto Ohki},
title={NURSE SCHEDULING BY COOPERATIVE GA WITH VARIABLE MUTATION OPERATOR},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={249-252},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001694802490252},
isbn={978-989-8111-37-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - NURSE SCHEDULING BY COOPERATIVE GA WITH VARIABLE MUTATION OPERATOR
SN - 978-989-8111-37-1
AU - Uneme S.
AU - Kawano H.
AU - Ohki M.
PY - 2008
SP - 249
EP - 252
DO - 10.5220/0001694802490252