Mid-term and short-term planning support for home health care services

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 219, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 574-587

  Nickel, Stefan ^a,b   Schröder, Michael ^b   Steeg, Jörg ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL MATHEMATICS ITWM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Constraint programming; Home health care; Metaheuristics; OR in health services; Route planning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING; GERMANY; META HEURISTICS; OPERATIONAL CHANGES; OPERATIONAL PLANNING; OPTIMAL PLAN; OR IN HEALTH SERVICES; REAL WORLD DATA; ROUTE PLANNING; ROUTING AND SCHEDULING; SCHEDULE PROBLEMS; SHORT TERM PLANNING; SMALL COMPANIES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS;

HOME HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84857910552     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2011.10.042     Document Type: Article

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