An artificial immune system based approach for solving the nurse re-rostering problem

  • Authors:

  • Broos Maenhout;Mario Vanhoucke

  • Affiliations:

  • Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium;Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium, Operations and Technology Management Centre, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Gent, Belgium, University Col ...

  • Venue:
  • EvoCOP'13 Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Personnel resources can introduce uncertainty in the operational processes. Constructed personnel rosters can be disrupted and render infeasible rosters. Feasibility has to be restored by adapting the original announced personnel rosters. In this paper, an Artificial Immune System for the nurse re-rostering problem is presented. The proposed algorithm uses problem-specific and even roster-specific mechanisms which are inspired on the vertebrate immune system. We observe the performance of the different algorithmic components and compare the proposed procedure with the existing literature.