Coordinating collection and appointment scheduling operations at the blood donation sites

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 87, Issue , 2015, Pages 260-266

  Mobasher, Azadeh ^a   Ekici, Ali ^a   Özener, Okan Örsan ^b  

^a Manhattan Associates   (United States)

^b OZYEGIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Appointment scheduling; Blood collection; Clustering; Mixed integer programming; Platelet production

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; PLATELETS; SCHEDULING;

APPOINTMENT SCHEDULING; BLOOD COLLECTION; CLUSTERING; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIXED INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODEL; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MODEL AND ALGORITHMS;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84930675337     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2015.05.020     Document Type: Article

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