Catch-up scheduling for childhood vaccination

Operations Research

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1307-1319

  Engineer, Faramroze G ^a   Keskinocak, Pinar ^a   Pickering, Larry K ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTIONS; COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS; COMBINATORIAL ASPECT; DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING ALGORITHM; GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; NP-HARD; OPTIMIZATION TECHNOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION-BASED ALGORITHM; OPTIMIZED SCHEDULE; SCHEDULING PROBLEM;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 73649115288     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1090.0756     Document Type: Article

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