TY - GEN
T1 - Constraint-based nurse rostering for the Valparaíso Clinic Center in Chile
AU - Pizarro, Renzo
AU - Rivera, Gianni
AU - Soto, Ricardo
AU - Crawford, Broderick
AU - Castro, Carlos
AU - Monfroy, Eric
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The nurse rostering problem consists in assigning working shifts to each nurse on each day for a certain period of time. In particular, for the Valparaíso Clinic Center, the problem comprises about 1600 assignments that must consider requirements related to minimal area or floor allocation as well as legal regulations. This planning is a difficult and time consuming task that currently is done by hand yielding often unsatisfactory results. In this paper, we provide a description of such a real-world problem and we show how it can be modeled and solved with constraint programming. Using this approach we provide an automatic generation of such rosters in a few seconds instead of by hand in some days.
AB - The nurse rostering problem consists in assigning working shifts to each nurse on each day for a certain period of time. In particular, for the Valparaíso Clinic Center, the problem comprises about 1600 assignments that must consider requirements related to minimal area or floor allocation as well as legal regulations. This planning is a difficult and time consuming task that currently is done by hand yielding often unsatisfactory results. In this paper, we provide a description of such a real-world problem and we show how it can be modeled and solved with constraint programming. Using this approach we provide an automatic generation of such rosters in a few seconds instead of by hand in some days.
KW - Constraint Satisfaction
KW - Rostering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79960413001&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-22095-1_90
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-22095-1_90
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79960413001
SN - 9783642220944
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 448
EP - 452
BT - HCI International 2011 - Posters' Extended Abstracts - International Conference, HCI International 2011, Proceedings
T2 - 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2011
Y2 - 9 July 2011 through 14 July 2011
ER -