Solving the patient appointment scheduling problem in outpatient chemotherapy clinics using clustering and mathematical programming.
Mahmoud HeshmatKazuhide NakataAmr B. EltawilPublished in: Comput. Ind. Eng. (2018)
Keyphrases
- mathematical programming
- scheduling problem
- combinatorial optimization
- search algorithm for solving
- patient data
- linear programming
- clinical practice
- tabu search
- single machine
- queueing theory
- goal programming
- np hard
- mixed integer linear
- robust optimization
- metaheuristic
- vehicle routing problem
- optimization approaches
- stationary points
- nonlinear programming
- medical care
- flowshop
- clinical data
- optimization problems
- linear program
- health care
- branch and bound
- controlled tabular adjustment