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Li, J., Aickelin, U. (2006). BOA for Nurse Scheduling. In: Pelikan, M., Sastry, K., CantúPaz, E. (eds) Scalable Optimization via Probabilistic Modeling. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 33. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-34954-9_14
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