Constructive Nurse Scheduling Using Reinforcement Learning Considering Variations in Nurse Work Patterns

It is very difficult to create a work schedule that satisfies all the different requirements in nurse scheduling.For this reason, numerous studies have been conducted on the nurse scheduling problem.However, the created shift schedule is often not practical as it is, because adjustments including various constraints and evaluation criteria are required.Therefore, we have proposed a work revision method using reinforcement learning in a constructive nurse scheduling system.In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of creating a practical work schedule even when there are nurses with different work pattern evaluations, i.e., the feasibility of creating a practical work schedule that takes each nurse's life stage into consideration.