期刊名称：International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications
印刷版ISSN：1738-9984
出版年度：2013
卷号：7
期号：4
出版社：SERSC
摘要：The simulated annealing was perceived as a useful method for many intractable problems. However, it needs additional strategies to cope with time complexity due to an initial state and search space reduction. In this work, we suggested an efficient transition rule and ap-plied it to a nurse scheduling problem. It uses a cost matrix to reduce a set of candidates, which results in performance improvement. The experimental results showed that the sug-gested method generated a feasible solution for the nurse scheduling problem faster in time and better in quality compared to traditional simulated annealing
