Project Title: Developing Web System for QMC Nurse Scheduling Problem
Student: Bingyu Li
Course: MSc Management of IT

Abstract:
This project aims to produce a web system to tackle nurse scheduling problem at
Queen's Medical Centre. The web system is designed based on SEAMO-R algorithm
which was proposed by Dario Landa-Silva and Khoi N.Le. SEAMO-R algorithm is
excellent adequate to deal with multi-objective optimization problems and was
proposed to solve nurse scheduling problem that the satisfaction of nurse preference
drives for non-dominated solutions. So this web system allows nurses choose their
favourite shifts, and then nurse manager can generate a high quality schedule
considering nurses' preference by applying SEAMO-R algorithm.
The difficulty of this project lies within embedding the SEAMO-R algorithm into
producing this web system. The problems are how to abstract an efficient interface of
the existing SEAMO-R algorithm and how to uniform parameters. Also a requirement
specification was created to address the problem. And there was a clear set of
requirements that the interfaces and functionalities must meet.
In the end, testing and evaluation were conducted in order to analyse whether the
goals had been achieved and evaluate the functional and nonfunctional requirements
of the web system, finally report the users' feedback on the system.