Adaptive Programming

Adaptive Programming is EmLogis’ methodology for producing a mathematical process whose origins are in the healthcare industry. The process is called Metaheuristics and has been recognized in the Journal Of Nursing Administration and the University of Minnesota as a breakthrough that allows for previously unattainable solutions for complex operations and businesses.

Heuristics has both Greek and Latin roots and means “to find or to discover” while Meta means “beyond.” Metaheuristics employ experimentation with trial and error techniques to rapidly sort through thousands of possibilities of aligning staff resources to match with demand. The process quickly comes to a solution that is the best possible answer for human capital optimization. The process then allows for administrators to conduct ‘what-if’ planning to discover alternative solutions until the best schedule of resources is attained.

Up until today, Metaheuristics for complex operations such as correctional facilities, retail, manufacturing and especially healthcare industries was unavailable. EmLogis is the only company that uses Metaheuristics for workforce modeling and creating employee scheduling.

In a white paper published in Europe by 4 respected doctors titled The State of the Art of Nurse Rostering it was recognized that Metaheuristics “is better suited than other approaches for generating an acceptable solution in cases where the constraint load is extremely high and indeed in cases where even feasible solutions are very difficult (if not impossible) to find.”