In home health care (HHC) operations, nurses are scheduled and routed to perform various
services at clients' homes. As this often requires a combination of vehicle routing and …

Nurse rostering is a complex scheduling problem that affects hospital personnel on a daily
basis all over the world. The need for quality software solutions is acute for a number of …

One of the most important health care services is emergency medical service as it plays a
vital role in saving people's lives and reducing the rate of mortality and morbidity. Over the …

We provide a comprehensive overview of the typical decisions to be made in resource
capacity planning and control in health care, and a structured review of relevant articles from …

Optimisation problems in Healthcare have received considerable attention for more than
three decades. More recently, however, with decreasing birth rates in nearly all of the …

This paper presents an investigation of a simple generic hyper-heuristic approach upon a
set of widely used constructive heuristics (graph coloring heuristics) in timetabling. Within …

Over the last decades, hospitals have faced increasing financial pressure due to rising costs
and changes in reimbursement policies. One of the reasons for this development is the …

Disasters are becoming increasingly frequent, calamitous, and expensive. The constant
increase of disasters and more exposure of people, facilities, built environment and assets …

In the context of workforce scheduling, there are many scenarios in which personnel must
carry out tasks at different locations hence requiring some form of transportation. Examples …

This paper presents the novel application of a collaborative population-based meta-heuristic
technique called Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to the scheduling of home care …