Patients are traditionally treated in hospitals and healthcare facilities. However, many care
services known as Home Health Care (HHC) are provided at patients' homes. Despite the …

This paper addresses a home health care routing and scheduling problem (HHCRSP)
specifically focusing on the context of a pandemic environment. The investigated HHCRSP …

In many real-world problems there is often the requirement to optimise multiple conflicting
objectives in an efficient manner. In such problems there can be the requirement to optimise …

Driven by innovative technologies such as the Internet of Things, blockchain, and mobile
applications, meals-on-wheels (MOW) delivery services have shifted from a self-delivery …

In this study, a multi-objective mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) model is
proposed to help the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) determine the …

Abstract A Home Health Care Routing and Scheduling Problem (HHCRSP) is one of the
most practical branches in Home Health Care (HHC) optimization. The main focus of this …

In this paper, we address a districting problem motivated by a real-world case study to
partition residential areas of a region for a healthcare system operation under interval …

The main objective of the sectorization approach is to divide a vast region into symmetric
sectors. Balancing accessibility of healthcare units, which is commonly between the goals of …

In this study, we compare the performance of optimization software to solve the bi-objective
sectorization problem. The used solution method is based on an approach that has not been …

Recent trends in customer habits have greatly affected last-mile logistics, increasing the
pressure to effectively serve an increasing demand. For traditional postal mail companies …