Optimization of patients appointments in chemotherapy treatment unit: heuristic and metaheuristic approaches

This research aims to improve the performance of the service of a Chemotherapy Treatment Unit by reducing the waiting time of patients within the unit. In order to fulfill the objective, initially, the chemotherapy treatment unit is deduced as an identical parallel machines scheduling problem with u...

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Main Author: Shahnawaz, Sanjana
Other Authors: ElMekkawy, Tarek (Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering) Peng,Qingjin (Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering)
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/8876