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School of Computer Science and Information Technology University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus NOTTINGHAM NG8 1BB, UK Computer Science Technical Report No. NOTTCS-TR-2007-4 Jingpeng Li, Uwe Aickelin and Edmund K. Burke First released: Nov 2006 © Copyright 2007 Jingpeng Li, Uwe Aickelin and Edmund K. Burke In an attempt to ensure good-quality printouts of our technical reports, from the supplied PDF files, we process to PDF using Acrobat Distiller. We encourage our authors to use outline fonts coupled with embedding of the used subset of all fonts (in either Truetype or Type 1 formats) except for the standard Acrobat typeface families of Times, Helvetica (Arial), Courier and Symbol. In the case of papers prepared using TEX or LATEX we endeavour to use subsetted Type 1 fonts, supplied by YY Inc., for the Computer Modern, Lucida Bright and Mathtime families, rather than the public-domain Computer Modern bitmapped fonts. Note that the YY font subsets are embedded under a site license issued by YY Inc. For further details of site licensing and purchase of these fonts visit A ComponentBased HeuristicSearchmethodwithAdaptivePerturbationsfor HospitalPersonnelScheduling JingpengLi,UweAickelinandEdmundK.Burke {jpl,uxa,ekb}@ cs.nott.ac.uk SchoolofComputerScienceandInformationTechnology TheUniversityofNottingham