SINTEF ICT: Our test cases are synthetic instances but they derived from detailed discussions with the hospitals.The use of synthetic data is justified by the present lack of high-quality real 24-hour demand data suitable for our purposes; our reference hospitals have plans for improving and standardizing their 24-hour demand data. The 24-hour demand data is subdivided into time slots of 15 minutes, and the demand values in a single time slot are for each skill type. The 24-hour demand data can be different for different weekdays. According to our data, the workforce (nurses, head nurse, and so on) is subdivided in up to 5 groups, each group having the same skill set. The skills in a skill set can be of 5 different skill types.

The cost matrix (Norwegian Kroner):

 When referring to this Test Bed in publications, please use the following reference:

Eivind J. Nilssen, Martin Stølevik, Tomas Eric Nordlander (2010) SINTEF ICT:  Shift Design Test Cases [WWW] Available from: http://www.comihc.org/index.php/Test-Beds/sintef-ict-shift-design-data.html [Accessed date]

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