Multicriteria tour planning for mobile healthcare facilities in a developing country

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1078-1096

  Doerner, Karl ^a   Focke, Axel ^b   Gutjahr, Walter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Facility location; Metaheuristics; Mobile healthcare; Multicriteria decision making; Routing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DECISION MAKING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; METADATA; ROUTERS;

FACILITY LOCATION; METAHEURISTICS; MOBILE HEALTHCARE; MULTICRITERIA DECISION MAKING; ROUTING;

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 33845918730     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2005.10.067     Document Type: Article

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