Clustering clinical departments for wards to achieve a prespecified blocking probability

DOI10.1007/S00291-014-0368-5MaRDI QIDQ2260901zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Theresia van Essen, Mark van Houdenhoven, Johann L. Hurink

Publication date 12 March 2015

Published in OR Spectrum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://research.utwente.nl/en/publications/clustering-clinical-departments-for-wards-to-achieve-a-prespecified-blocking-probability(4c2aaa64-7648-41f8-ac2f-996dff545cff).html

zbMATH Keywords

heuristicshospitalsinteger programminglayoutwards

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation methods and heuristics in mathematical programming (90C59) Mixed integer programming (90C11) Discrete location and assignment (90B80)

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• MCQueue

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