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标题：A Vehicle Routing Problem for the Collection of Medical Samples at Home: Case Study of Morocco
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作者：Ettazi Haitam ; Rafalia Najat ; Jaafar Abouchabaka 等
期刊名称：International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA)
印刷版ISSN：2158-107X
电子版ISSN：2156-5570
出版年度：2021
卷号：12
期号：4
页码：345-351
DOI：10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120443
出版社：Science and Information Society (SAI)
摘要：This paper aims to solve the problem of sampling and collecting blood and/ or urine tubes from sick people at home via a medical staff (nurse/ caregiver) to the laboratory in an optimal way. To ensure good management, several constraints must be taken into account, namely: staff schedules, patient preferences, the maximum delay time for a blood sample, etc. This problem is considered as a vehicle routing problem with time windows, preference and priority according to urgent cases. We first proposed a mathematical formulation of the problem by using a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) as well as various metaheuristics. Also, we applied this method to a real instance of a laboratory in Morocco (Témara) named Laboratory BioGuich, which gave the most optimal results.
关键词：Optimization; metaheuristics; vehicle routing problem; allocation and planning; home care