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Making schedules for staff nurses is considered to be a complex problem that has great impact on hospitals on a day- to-day basis worldwide. In this work, the proponents have successfully applied Bees Algorithm (BA), a Swarm Intelligence metaheuristic approach, to solve the said problem and to generate an effective and efficient schedule. This approach practices a resemblance between the way in which bees in nature search for their food, and the way in which optimization algorithm search for an optimal solution in combinatorial optimization problems.

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Source Institution	Ateneo de Davao University
Unit	Computer Studies
Authors	Andrea Camil Nuesca, Gene Marco Mendoza
Page Count	35
Place of Publication	Davao City
Original Publication Date	March 1, 2015
Tags	Bees Algorithm, hospital personnel scheduling, nurse rostering, nurse scheduling, nurse scheduling problem, staff scheduling

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