An electromagnetic meta-heuristic for the nurse scheduling problem.
Broos MaenhoutMario VanhouckePublished in: J. Heuristics (2007)
Keyphrases
- metaheuristic
- scheduling problem
- tabu search
- simulated annealing
- flowshop
- optimization problems
- single machine
- ant colony optimization
- scatter search
- genetic algorithm
- vehicle routing problem
- combinatorial optimization
- optimal solution
- memetic algorithm
- search space
- np hard
- iterated local search
- feasible solution
- job shop scheduling problem
- benchmark instances
- initial solution
- search procedure
- multi start
- combinatorial problems
- guided local search
- solution space
- harmony search
- optimization method
- harmony search algorithm
- evolutionary algorithm
- hybrid algorithm
- particle swarm optimization
- multi objective
- search algorithm
- ant colony optimisation
- cost function
- set of benchmark instances