A branch-and-price algorithm for the home health care scheduling and routing problem with stochastic service times and skill requirements

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 53, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 7450-7464

  Yuan, Biao ^a   Liu, Ran ^a   Jiang, Zhibin ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

branch and price; column generation; home health care; skill requirements; stochastic service times; vehicle routing

Indexed keywords

COSTS; HOME HEALTH CARE; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; SCHEDULING; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; VEHICLE ROUTING;

BRANCH AND PRICE; BRANCH-AND-PRICE ALGORITHMS; COLUMN GENERATION; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; SCHEDULING AND ROUTING; SERVICE TIME; SKILL REQUIREMENTS; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING MODEL;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84991034202     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2015.1082041     Document Type: Article

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