2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A nurse scheduling system for rerostering following a sudden absence of nurses
| Project/Area Number |
19510151
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Social systems engineering/Safety system
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| Research Institution | Osaka Prefecture University |
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Principal Investigator |
MORIZAWA Kazuko Osaka Prefecture University, 工学研究科, 准教授 (60220050)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
HIRABAYASHI Naoki 大阪府立大学, 工学研究科, 講師 (80199091)
NAGASAWA Hiroyuki 大阪府立工業高等専門学校, 校長 (30117999)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | ナース・スケジューリング / 組合せ最適化 / ヒューリスティック / 医療・福祉 |
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| Research Abstract |
A heuristic recursive search method for solving the nurse rerostering problems following a sudden absence of nurses is proposed in this research. Aiming at generating "feasible" schedules which satisfy some important conditions such as required numbers and skill levels of nurses at every-day-shifts, prohibited shift patterns and limits of workload for individual nurse, the proposed method solves the nurse rerostering problems by repeating a task re-assignment for filling up the absent position with an appropriate nurse and a 'day-off' task assignment for eliminating any violation of the feasible conditions in the current schedule in a recursive way. Numerical examples in 3-shift nurse rerostering problems with real data in Japan are shown to demonstrate that the proposed method can generate acceptable schedules for practical use efficiently.
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Research Products
(6 results)
