-heuristic algorithm based on simulated annealing (SA) is applied to heuristically solve the problem in a reasonable time. An initial … feasible solution generator and several novel neighborhood structures are applied to enhance performance of the SA algorithm … algorithm. The results of computational experiments indicate that the applied SA algorithm provides solutions with average …

building better scheduling algorithms by identifying successful algorithm modifications. The comparison method captures the … proposed method of comparing algorithms is an objective procedure designed to assist in the process of improving an algorithm …. This is achieved even when some results are non-numeric or missing due to infeasibility. The final algorithm outperforms …

. This paper presents an Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (EDA) for the nurse scheduling problem, which involves choosing … Algorithms (GAs) to implement implicit learning, the learning in the proposed algorithm is explicit, i.e. we identify and mix …

directly. To achieve this target, the Bayesian optimization algorithm builds a Bayesian network of the joint probability …

A Bayesian optimisation algorithm for a nurse scheduling problem is presented, which involves choosing a suitable …, we design a more human-like scheduling algorithm, by using a Bayesian optimisation algorithm to implement explicit …