ALLOCATION OF HUMAN RESOURCES IN MEDICAL COOPERATIVES USING A CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEM APPROACH

摘要

This work intends to contribute to reducing hospital operation costs, proposing a new tool for planning for the allocation of human resources in hospitals using cooperative physician services, specifically, a new tool for human resource allocation in health units. The solution to the allocation problem uses the CSP technique (Constraint Satisfaction Problem) associated with a backtracking search algorithm. With the objective of enhancing the backtracking search algorithm performance a new heuristics is proposed. Through some simulations the performance of the proposed heuristics is compared to the other heuristics previously published in the literature: remaining minimum values, forward checking and grade heuristics.