Weekly home health care logistics

2013 10th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 282-287

  Liu, Ran ^a,b   Xie, Xiaolan ^a,b   Garaix, Thierry ^a,b  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

home health care; local search; patient visit planning; tabu search; vehicle routing

Indexed keywords

BLOOD SAMPLES; HIGH PROBABILITY; LOCAL SEARCH; LOGISTICS OPTIMIZATION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PERIODIC VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM WITH TIME-WINDOWS; PRECEDENCE CONSTRAINTS; TIME WINDOW CONSTRAINT;

HOSPITALS; TABU SEARCH; VEHICLE ROUTING;

HOME HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84881292998     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICNSC.2013.6548751     Document Type: Conference Paper

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