%0 Generic %A Manotas NiƱo, Vanessa Patricia %8 2010 %@ 0974-0635. %U http://hdl.handle.net/10818/55535 %X This paper presents a methodology for solving the Nurse Rostering problem. A case study of a hospital located in the city of Barranquilla, Colombia, is considered, in which several conflicting factors guide the decision-making process. The methodology consists of looking for the best nurses rostering where the overtime is reduced and they are fulfilled the restrictions implanted by the hospital. A heuristic procedure is proposed that considers four of the thousand of restrictions that can be presented in similar problems. %I International journal of artificial intelligence %T Nurse rostering problem %~ Intellectum