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Author : Michael Mutingi
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (946 download)
Download or read book Fuzzy Heuristic Approaches for Healthcare Staff Scheduling written by Michael Mutingi and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Mutingi
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1498707971
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Healthcare Staff Scheduling written by Michael Mutingi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthcare operations, in hospitals and home healthcare settings, are inundated with complex fuzzy features that impose difficulties in the creation of work schedules. As healthcare workers call for schedules that accommodate their individual preferences and patients continue to call for more personalized healthcare, further research into multi-cri
Author : Pasit Lorterapong
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (864 download)
Download or read book A Fuzzy Heuristic Method for Resource-constrained Project Scheduling written by Pasit Lorterapong and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncertainties in project management can make scheduling and resource allocation difficult. To overcome some of the limitations of a heuristic method of unconstrained scheduling problems, a new resource allocation technique is presented as a way to account for and incorporate uncertainties into scheduling. Using this fuzzy set theory technique, resources are allocated to minimize unavoidable project delays, utilize available resources, and reduce resource interruptions. Three criteria are used to measure performance compared to the Minimum Late Finish (MINLFT) and the Minimum Slack (MINSLK) rules: project duration, resource utilization, and resource interruption. 51 cases were studied from the literature. The proposed method produced 25 solutions which satisfied all three objectives simultaneously, a number that is about 60 percent higher than the MINLFT and MINSLK rules. A framework for performing resource allocation in an uncertain environment is provided, along with an outline of the two major steps of this technique: Group Formation and Group Evaluation.
Author : Timothy Curtois
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Novel heuristic and metaheuristic approaches to the automated scheduling of healthcare personnel written by Timothy Curtois and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Mutingi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319443941
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Grouping Genetic Algorithms written by Michael Mutingi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents advances and innovations in grouping genetic algorithms, enriched with new and unique heuristic optimization techniques. These algorithms are specially designed for solving industrial grouping problems where system entities are to be partitioned or clustered into efficient groups according to a set of guiding decision criteria. Examples of such problems are: vehicle routing problems, team formation problems, timetabling problems, assembly line balancing, group maintenance planning, modular design, and task assignment. A wide range of industrial grouping problems, drawn from diverse fields such as logistics, supply chain management, project management, manufacturing systems, engineering design and healthcare, are presented. Typical complex industrial grouping problems, with multiple decision criteria and constraints, are clearly described using illustrative diagrams and formulations. The problems are mapped into a common group structure that can conveniently be used as an input scheme to specific variants of grouping genetic algorithms. Unique heuristic grouping techniques are developed to handle grouping problems efficiently and effectively. Illustrative examples and computational results are presented in tables and graphs to demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of the algorithms. Researchers, decision analysts, software developers, and graduate students from various disciplines will find this in-depth reader-friendly exposition of advances and applications of grouping genetic algorithms an interesting, informative and valuable resource.
Author : Peter Fleming
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319521713
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Emerging Trends in Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering written by Peter Fleming and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book reports on advanced theories and methods in two related engineering fields: electrical and electronic engineering, and communications engineering and computing. It highlights areas of global and growing importance, such as renewable energy, power systems, mobile communications, security and the Internet of Things (IoT). The contributions cover a number of current research issues, including smart grids, photovoltaic systems, wireless power transfer, signal processing, 4G and 5G technologies, IoT applications, mobile cloud computing and many more. Based on the proceedings of the first International Conference on Emerging Trends in Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering (ELECOM 2016), held in Voila Bagatelle, Mauritius from November 25 to 27, 2016, the book provides graduate students, researchers and professionals with a snapshot of the state-of-the-art and a source of new ideas for future research and collaborations.
Author : Muhammad Mohiuddin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9535136178
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Knowledge Management Strategies and Applications written by Muhammad Mohiuddin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge management (KM) has become an important business strategy in an era of accelerated globalization, digitalization, and servitization of products and services. Maximizing the use of organizational resources becomes fundamental for continuous growth and prosperity. Organizations of various kinds such as resource-based organizations, product-based organizations, as well as knowledge-intensive service-oriented organizations require specific policies and support services to improve the knowledge management in their respective organizations. Knowledge Management Strategies and Applications focuses on the way organizations can create knowledge, share existing or new knowledge, and disseminate them among the stakeholders, most importantly among the employees, managers, customers, and suppliers. The selected topics are drawn from several fields of studies and give a multidisciplinary outlook. The book will be interesting not only for the researchers and students but also for the managers who want to improve knowledge sharing and innovation capabilities in their organizations.
Author : Jingpeng Li
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Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book A Component Based Heuristic Search Method with Adaptive Perturbations for Hospital Personnel Scheduling written by Jingpeng Li and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nurse rostering is a complex scheduling problem that affects hospital personnel on a daily basis all over the world. This paper presents a new component-based approach with adaptive perturbations, for a nurse scheduling problem arising at a major UK hospital. The main idea behind this technique is to decompose a schedule into its components (i.e. the allocated shift pattern of each nurse), and then mimic a natural evolutionary process on these components to iteratively deliver better schedules. The worthiness of all components in the schedule has to be continuously demonstrated in order for them to remain there. This demonstration employs a dynamic evaluation function which evaluates how well each component contributes towards the final objective.Two perturbation steps are then applied: the first perturbation eliminates a number of components that are deemed not worthy to stay in the current schedule; the second perturbation may also throw out, with a low level of probability, some worthy components. The eliminated components are replenished with new ones using a set of constructive heuristics using local optimality criteria. Computational results using 52 data instances demonstrate the applicability of the proposed approach in solving real-world problems.
Author : Eckart Zitzler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540447199
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization written by Eckart Zitzler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-06-29 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Multi-Criterion Optimization, EMO 2001, held in Zurich, Switzerland in March 2001. The 45 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 87 submissions. Also included are two tutorial surveys and two invited papers. The book is organized in topical sections on algorithm improvements, performance assessment and comparison, constraint handling and problem decomposition, uncertainty and noise, hybrid and alternative methods, scheduling, and applications of multi-objective optimization in a variety of fields.
Author : Ajith Abraham
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303073689X
Total Pages : 1061 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2020) written by Ajith Abraham and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 1061 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the recent research on soft computing and pattern recognition and their various practical applications. It presents 62 selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2020) and 35 papers from the 16th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security (IAS 2020), which was held online, from December 15 to 18, 2020. A premier conference in the field of artificial intelligence, SoCPaR-IAS 2020 brought together researchers, engineers and practitioners whose work involves intelligent systems, network security and their applications in industry. Including contributions by authors from 40 countries, the book offers a valuable reference guide for all researchers, students and practitioners in the fields of Computer Science and Engineering.
Author : Dustin Banet
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Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (656 download)
Download or read book Heuristic Scheduling for Clinical Physicians written by Dustin Banet and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personnel scheduling is a problem faced by many organizations in the healthcare industry, particularly in rapidly developing outpatient centers. The task of creating a schedule that adequately covers patient demand while satisfying the preferences of employees, observing work regulations, and ensuring a fair distribution of work is highly complex. Even though this highly complex task directly affects measures such as patient waiting time and employee satisfaction, many organizations still resort to the traditional and cumbersome manual solution methods. A large segment of prior research on personnel scheduling in healthcare focuses on nurse rostering and the development of automated tools to aid in scheduling. The drawbacks to these methods include the lack of generality and the need for specialized software packages and training. The aim of this study is the development of an effective, low cost, and uncomplicated heuristic tool to aid schedulers in outpatient centers. Solution methodologies used by previous researchers in problems such as nurse rostering and aircrew rostering are adapted to the particular problem of physician scheduling in mixed specialty outpatient clinics. The developed heuristic tool obtains an initial feasible solution using a greedy algorithm and then uses the simulated annealing metaheuristic to improve the solution, which is a measure of physician satisfaction. The heuristic tool developed in this study was tested using eight randomly generated data sets to model 45 unique cases. The heuristic found the optimal solution in 19 of the 45 tested cases. The average difference from the optimal physician satisfaction rating in the other 26 cases was 0.35%.
Author : Francesca Rossi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540202021
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2003 written by Francesca Rossi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-09-24 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2003, held in Kinsale, Ireland in September/October 2003. The 48 revised full papers and 34 revised short papers presented together with 4 invited papers and 40 abstracts of contributions to the CP 2003 doctoral program were carefully reviewed and selected from 181 submissions. A wealth of recent results in computing with constraints is addressed ranging from foundational and methodological issues to solving real-world problems in a variety of application fields.
Author : Houda Derbel
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303045312X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Green Transportation and New Advances in Vehicle Routing Problems written by Houda Derbel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents recent work that analyzes general issues of green transportation. The contributed chapters consider environmental objectives in transportation, including topics such as battery swap stations for electric vehicles, efficient home healthcare routing, waste collection, and various vehicle routing problems. The content will be valuable for researchers and postgraduate students in computer science, operations research, and urban planning.
Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540451579
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling IV written by Edmund Burke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-28 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thisvolumecontainsaselectionofpapersfromthe4thInternationalConference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2002) held in Gent, August 21–23, 2002. Since the ?rst conference in Edinburgh in 1995, the range of timetabling applications at the conferences has become broader and more diverse. In the s- ected papers volume from the 1995 conference, there were just two contributions (out of 22) which did not speci?cally address school and university timetabling. In the selected papers volume from the 1997 conference in Toronto, the number of papers which tackled non-educational problems increased. Two of the papers addressed more than one timetabling application. In both of these papers, educational applications were considered in addition to other applications. A further three papers were concerned with non-educational applications. The conference steering and programme committees have worked hard to attract a wide range of timetabling applications. In the conference held in Konstanz in 2000, the diversi?cation of timetabling problems increased signi?cantly. Of the 21 selected papers in the postconference volume, just 13 were speci?cally concerned with educational timetabling. In the previous volumes, the papers had been sectioned according to solution technique. In the Konstanz volume the papers were classi?ed according to application domains. One section of the volume was entitled “Employee Timetabling,” while sports timetabling, air?eet scheduling, and general software architectures for timetabling were also represented. In the present volume, more than one-third of the 21 papers discuss problems in application areas other than academic and educational ones. Sports timetabling and hospital timetabling are particularly well represented.
Author : Cengiz Kahraman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030237567
Total Pages : 1392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Intelligent and Fuzzy Techniques in Big Data Analytics and Decision Making written by Cengiz Kahraman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 1392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes the proceedings of the Intelligent and Fuzzy Techniques INFUS 2019 Conference, held in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 23–25, 2019. Big data analytics refers to the strategy of analyzing large volumes of data, or big data, gathered from a wide variety of sources, including social networks, videos, digital images, sensors, and sales transaction records. Big data analytics allows data scientists and various other users to evaluate large volumes of transaction data and other data sources that traditional business systems would be unable to tackle. Data-driven and knowledge-driven approaches and techniques have been widely used in intelligent decision-making, and they are increasingly attracting attention due to their importance and effectiveness in addressing uncertainty and incompleteness. INFUS 2019 focused on intelligent and fuzzy systems with applications in big data analytics and decision-making, providing an international forum that brought together those actively involved in areas of interest to data science and knowledge engineering. These proceeding feature about 150 peer-reviewed papers from countries such as China, Iran, Turkey, Malaysia, India, USA, Spain, France, Poland, Mexico, Bulgaria, Algeria, Pakistan, Australia, Lebanon, and Czech Republic.
Author : Salman Nazir
Publisher : AHFE International
ISBN 13 : 1958651311
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (586 download)
Download or read book Human Factors in Management and Leadership written by Salman Nazir and published by AHFE International. This book was released on 2022-07-24 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Factors in Management and Leadership Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022), July 24–28, 2022, New York, USA
Author : J.C. Fodor
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940171648X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Fuzzy Preference Modelling and Multicriteria Decision Support written by J.C. Fodor and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides in-depth coverage of the most important results about fuzzy logic including negations, conjunctions, disjunctions, implications and gives the interrelations between those different connectives. The work brings together multiple results about valued binary relations satisfying diverse transitivity-type conditions. The authors propose the first sound introduction to valued preference modelling through the systematic use of fuzzy set theory and functional equations and derive the possible foundations for multicriteria decision aid using aggregation, ranking and choice procedures on the basis of axiomatic results. The text presents a unified view of various multicriteria decision making tools that have been independently derived in the past, dealing with pairwise comparisons. The monograph is mathematically oriented but the results will be of the greatest interest for engineers and economists who design and implement decision support systems in practice. It is also supplied with a sufficient number of examples to make it attractive to nonspecialists.
