scholarly journals A Decomposition Approach for the Home Health Care Problem with Time Windows

2017 ◽  
pp. 221-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Semih Yalçındağ ◽  
Andrea Matta
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Home Health Care ◽  
Time Windows ◽  
Home Health ◽  
Decomposition Approach

A new distributed optimization approach for home healthcare routing and scheduling problem

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 217-230
Author(s):  
Jalel Euchi ◽  
Salah Zidi ◽  
Lamri Laouamer
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Home Health Care ◽  
Distributed Optimization ◽  
Time Windows ◽  
Home Health ◽  
Home Healthcare ◽  
Optimization Approach ◽  
Scheduling Problem ◽  
Routing And Scheduling ◽  
Comparison Results

Home health care faces new challenges day by day and it has become increasingly legitimate in the face of an aging population. Home healthcare centers are exposed to cumulative demands and academics are paying attention to the routing and scheduling matter, which is offered in literature as a Technician Routing and Scheduling Problem (TRSP) where the aim is to minimize the total cost subject to the time windows constraints to serve the patients respecting their priorities. In this paper, we develop a new distributed algorithm to resolve the home health care routing and scheduling problem (HHRSP). The principal idea of this algorithm is to apply artificial intelligence techniques in a distributed optimization method. The integration of automatic learning and search methods are applied to optimize the assignment of appointments to home caregivers. It allows us to gain time, effort, especially cost, and while complying with the problem constraints. The comparison results prove the efficacy of the recommended approach, which can offer decision support for medical executives of home health care.

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