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The Second International Nurse Rostering Competition

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Date
20/03/2018
Author
Ceschia, Sara
Dang, Nguyen
De Causmaecker, Patrick
Haspeslagh, Stefaan
Schaerf, Andrea
Keywords
Nurse rostering
Optimisation competition
Multi-stage optimisation
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
R Medicine
T-NDAS
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Abstract
This paper reports on the Second International Nurse Rostering Competition (INRC-II). Its contributions are (1) a new problem formulation which, differently from INRC-I, is a multi-stage procedure, (2) a competition environment that, as in INRC-I, will continue to serve as a growing testbed for search approaches to the INRC-II problem, and (3) final results of the competition. We discuss also the competition environment, which is an infrastructure including problem and instance definitions, testbeds, validation/simulation tools and rules. The hardness of the competition instances has been evaluated through the behaviour of our own solvers, and confirmed by the solvers of the participants. Finally, we discuss general issues about both nurse rostering problems and optimisation competitions in general.
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Ceschia , S , Dang , N , De Causmaecker , P , Haspeslagh , S & Schaerf , A 2018 , ' The Second International Nurse Rostering Competition ' , Annals of Operations Research , vol. 274 , pp. 171–186 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-018-2816-0
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Annals of Operations Research
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-018-2816-0
ISSN
0254-5330
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2020 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1007.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/20910

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