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Personnel scheduling problems arise from various real-world scenarios, including supermarket staff scheduling, call centre staff allocation, police force scheduling, and, the most studied, nurse rostering in hospitals. Due to the demands of quality healthcare, limited resources, and the tight constraints of specific legislation worldwide, the nurse rostering problem (NRP) has received extensive research attention in the last five decades [26].
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Pillay, N., Qu, R. (2018). Nurse Rostering Problems. In: Hyper-Heuristics: Theory and Applications. Natural Computing Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96514-7_8
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