Multi‐objective scheduling and a resource allocation problem in hospitals

Multi‐objective scheduling and a resource allocation problem in hospitals

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Article ID: iaor20125356
Volume: 15
Issue: 5
Start Page Number: 513
End Page Number: 535
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Journal: Journal of Scheduling
Authors: ,
Keywords: programming: multiple criteria, combinatorial optimization, health services, programming: integer, heuristics, heuristics: genetic algorithms
Abstract:

This study addresses the issue of scheduling medical treatments for resident patients in a hospital. Schedules are made daily according to the restrictions on medical equipment and physicians who are being assigned at the same time. The problem is formulated as a multi‐objective binary integer programming (BIP) model. Three types of metaheuristics are proposed and implemented to deal with the discrete search space, numerous variables, constraints and multiple objectives: a variable neighborhood search (VNS)‐based method, scatter search (SS)‐based methods and a non‐dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA‐II). This paper also provides the results of computational experiments and compares their ability to find efficient solutions to the multi‐objective scheduling problem.

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