Preference Nurse Scheduling with Squeaky Wheel Optimisation

We refer to the construction of schedules for a ward of nurses in a hospital. In general, nurse scheduling methods can be classified into three types. In cyclic scheduling, a series of work-ing patterns are generated and rotated among all nurses from one planning period to the next one (e.g. [1]). In self-scheduling, nurses choose the shift they want in each day provided tha