Heuristic algorithms for a vehicle routing problem with simultaneous delivery and pickup and time windows in home health care.
Ran LiuXiaolan XieVincent AugustoCarlos Rodríguez-VerjanPublished in: Eur. J. Oper. Res. (2013)
Keyphrases
- vehicle routing problem with simultaneous
- vehicle routing problem
- health care
- home care
- vehicle routing
- tabu search
- metaheuristic
- pick up and delivery
- information systems
- benchmark problems
- np hard
- traveling salesman problem
- medical information
- primary care
- travel time
- combinatorial optimization
- health services
- particle swarm optimization
- health care providers
- intensive care
- electronic health records
- health data
- genetic algorithm
- health information
- search strategies
- health insurance
- medical records
- patient care
- computational complexity
- medical students
- medical practice
- smart home
- knapsack problem
- search algorithm