A stochastic inventory routing problem for infectious medical waste collection

Networks

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 82-95

  Nolz, Pamela C ^a,b   Absi, Nabil ^b   Feillet, Dominique ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b ECOLE DES MINES DE SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

Author keywords

adaptive large neighborhood search; medical waste collection; stochastic inventory routing; sustainable logistics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE LARGE NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCHES; INFECTIOUS-MEDICAL WASTES; INVENTORY ROUTING PROBLEMS; MEDICAL WASTES; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY; SOCIAL OBJECTIVES; STOCHASTIC INVENTORY; STOCHASTIC PROBLEMS;

LOGISTICS; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE TREATMENT;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 84890119862     PISSN: 00283045     EISSN: 10970037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/net.21523     Document Type: Article

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