Scheduling logistic activities to improve hospital supply systems

DOI10.1016/j.cor.2005.03.017zbMath1120.90002MaRDI QIDQ2433374

Angel Ruiz, Sophie D. Lapierre

Publication date: 27 October 2006

Published in: Computers \& Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2005.03.017

zbMATH Keywords

tabu search; supply chain; logistic; workload balancing; hospital

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

90B40: Search theory

90B06: Transportation, logistics and supply chain management

Uses Software

• Tabu search

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