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dc.contributor.authorFathollahi-Fard, Amir Mohammad
dc.contributor.authorHajiaghaei-Keshteli, Mostafa
dc.contributor.authorMirjalili, Seyedali
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-10T01:33:38Z
dc.date.available2019-06-10T01:33:38Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.issn0941-0643
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s00521-019-04126-8
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/384686
dc.description.abstractNowadays, the aging population and the little availability of informal care are two of the several factors leading to an increased need for assisted living support. Hence, home healthcare (HHC) operations including a set of nurses and patients have been developed recently by both academia and health practitioners to consider elderlies’ preferences willing to receive their cares at their homes instead of hospitals or retirement homes. Commonly, different services, e.g., nursing, physiotherapy, housekeeping and cleaning, for an HHC system are performed by nurses at patients’ homes after scheduling and routing the nurses by decision makers. Due to the difficulty of the problem, recent studies show a great deal of interest in applying various metaheuristics and heuristics to solve this problem. To alleviate the drawbacks of previous works and make HHC more practical, this paper develops not only a new mathematical formulation considering new suppositions in this research area but also a lower bound based on Lagrangian relaxation theory has been employed. As such, three new heuristics and a hybrid constructive metaheuristic are utilized in this study to solve the proposed model. Finally, the performance of the proposed algorithms is validated by the developed lower bound and also analyzed by different criteria and also the efficiency of developed formulation is probed through some sensitivity analyses.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofjournalNeural Computing and Applications
dc.subject.fieldofresearchArtificial intelligence
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCognitive and computational psychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchComputer vision and multimedia computation
dc.subject.fieldofresearchMachine learning
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4602
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5204
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4603
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4611
dc.titleA set of efficient heuristics for a home healthcare problem
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorMirjalili, Seyedali


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