Distributed Constraint Satisfaction based scheduling of nurses

Abstract

In Indian hospitals, the number of nurses is inadequate. Due to a shortage of hospitals to accommodate India's expanding population, the problem has gotten worse. Generally speaking, hospitals treat more patients than they can manage. Nurses are a vital human resource for every hospital's day-to-day operation. This human resource, which is typically limited, must be used as efficiently as feasible. Manually scheduling nurses is difficult and time-consuming as nurse scheduling is extremely constrained and labour-intensive to do by hand. This work formulates the Nurse Scheduling Problem (NSP) as a distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem (DCSP) that may be automated using any object-oriented programming language