A robust home health care routing-scheduling problem with temporal dependencies under uncertainty

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Highlights:

• Proposing a robust model for a home health care system under uncertainty.

• Integrating Monte Carlo simulation and meta-heuristics to solve the developed models.

• Considering the dependency between synchronized services and continuity of care.

• Considering multiple deployments of one caregiver in a one-day planning horizon.

• Confirming the efficiency of the model by performing comparative experiments.

摘要

•Proposing a robust model for a home health care system under uncertainty.•Integrating Monte Carlo simulation and meta-heuristics to solve the developed models.•Considering the dependency between synchronized services and continuity of care.•Considering multiple deployments of one caregiver in a one-day planning horizon.•Confirming the efficiency of the model by performing comparative experiments.

论文关键词:Scheduling,Vehicle routing problem,Home health care,Robust optimization,Meta-heuristics,Synchronization constraints

论文评审过程:Received 24 January 2021, Revised 18 April 2021, Accepted 13 May 2021, Available online 24 May 2021, Version of Record 25 June 2021.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.115209