The Second International Nurse Rostering Competition

Sara Ceschia (), Nguyen Dang (), Patrick Causmaecker (), Stefaan Haspeslagh () and Andrea Schaerf ()
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Sara Ceschia: University of Udine
Nguyen Dang: KU Leuven
Patrick Causmaecker: KU Leuven
Stefaan Haspeslagh: Vives University College
Andrea Schaerf: University of Udine

Annals of Operations Research, 2019, vol. 274, issue 1, No 9, 186 pages

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Nurse rostering; Optimisation competition; Multi-stage optimisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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