Integrating optimal simulation budget allocation and genetic algorithm to find the approximate pareto patient flow distribution

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 149-159

  Song, Jie ^a   Qiu, Yunzhe ^a   Liu, Zekun ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Discrete event simulation (DES); Genetic algorithm (GA); Patient flow distribution; Simulation optimization

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEALTH CARE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARETO PRINCIPLE;

BUDGET ALLOCATION; HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM; HEALTHCARE FACILITY; IMBALANCED DEVELOPMENT; OPTIMAL COMPUTING BUDGET ALLOCATION; PATIENT FLOW; QUANTITATIVE DECISION; SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION;

BUDGET CONTROL;

EID: 85014273423     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2015.2424975     Document Type: Article

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