Peng-Sheng You, Yi-Chih Hsieh, A heuristic algorithm for medical staff's scheduling problems with multiskills and vacation control, Science Progress (1933-), Vol. 104, Supplement 3: Conference ...

SPRITE is a “heuristic search algorithm”—meaning that it may not nab all possible solutions. But its speed makes it a useful first step.

The goal is to minimise the tour costs consisting of wage, hotel costs, travelling expenses and penalty fees for possibly omitted customers. We present a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model ...