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PSO-based algorithm for home care worker scheduling in the UK
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The objectives of this paper are to exploit a systematic approach to improve the existing schedule of home care workers, and to develop the methodology to enable the continuous PSO algorithm to be efficiently applied to this type of problem and all classes of similar problems.About:
This article is published in Computers & Industrial Engineering.The article was published on 2007-11-01. It has received 270 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Particle swarm optimization & Population.read more
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Personnel scheduling: A literature review
Jorne Van den Bergh,Jorne Van den Bergh,Jeroen Belien,Jeroen Belien,Philippe De Bruecker,Philippe De Bruecker,Erik Demeulemeester,Liesje De Boeck,Liesje De Boeck +8 more
TL;DR: This paper presents a review of the literature on personnel scheduling problems and discusses the classification methods in former review papers, and evaluates the literature in the many fields that are related to either the problem setting or the technical features.
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Home health care routing and scheduling
Christian Fikar,Patrick Hirsch +1 more
TL;DR: A comprehensive overview of current work in the field of HHC routing and scheduling with a focus on considered problem settings is given and single-period and multi-period problems are differentiated.
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The home health care routing and scheduling problem with interdependent services.
TL;DR: A planning approach for the daily planning of health care services carried out at patients’ homes by staff members of a home care company is proposed, which can be used for optimizing economical and service oriented measures of performance.
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A bi-objective home care scheduling problem: Analyzing the trade-off between costs and client inconvenience
TL;DR: A metaheuristic algorithm, embedding a large neighborhood search heuristic in a multi-directional local search framework, is proposed to solve the home care routing and scheduling problem as a bi-objective problem.
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OR problems related to Home Health Care: A review of relevant routing and scheduling problems
Mohamed Fatah Cisse,Semih Yalçındağ,Yannick Kergosien,Evren Sahin,Christophe Lenté,Andrea Matta +5 more
TL;DR: This paper details a comprehensive overview of recent OR models developed for the HHCRSP, a field that has received a great amount of attention in recent years.
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Particle swarm optimization
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A new optimizer using particle swarm theory
TL;DR: The optimization of nonlinear functions using particle swarm methodology is described and implementations of two paradigms are discussed and compared, including a recently developed locally oriented paradigm.
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Particle swarm optimization: developments, applications and resources
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An Effective Heuristic Algorithm for the Traveling-Salesman Problem
S. Lin,Brian W. Kernighan +1 more
TL;DR: This paper discusses a highly effective heuristic procedure for generating optimum and near-optimum solutions for the symmetric traveling-salesman problem based on a general approach to heuristics that is believed to have wide applicability in combinatorial optimization problems.
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Parameter Selection in Particle Swarm Optimization
Yuhui Shi,Russell C. Eberhart +1 more
TL;DR: This paper first analyzes the impact that inertia weight and maximum velocity have on the performance of the particle swarm optimizer, and then provides guidelines for selecting these two parameters.
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