8.An Approach of Exchanging Work Shifts Using Reinforcement Learning on a Constructive Nurse Scheduling System

Masato Nagayoshi1, Hisashi Tamaki2
1Niigata College of Nursing, 240 shinnan-cho, Joetsu, Niigata 943-0147, Japan
2Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan
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ABSTRACT
In this paper, we propose a work revision method using reinforcement learning on a constructive nurse scheduling system. The constructive nurse scheduling system makes the shift schedule creation procedures and rules easy to understand, because the system does not use the evaluation value for the entire shift schedule. We have confirmed the possibility of improving the quality of the shift schedule by the proposed method through a computational example
Keywords :Nnurse scheduling, Reinforcement learning, Q-learning, Constructive search, Work revision method

© 2022 The Author. Published by Sugisaka Masanori at ALife Robotics Corporation Ltd This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license ( h ttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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Received 21 November 2021
Accepted 10 June 2022

J-STAGE9208

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