Optimal control policies for ambulance diversion

DOI10.1016/J.EJOR.2013.11.018MaRDI QIDQ299902zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Adrian Ramirez-Nafarrate, A. Baykal Hafizoglu, Esma S. Gel, John Fowler

Publication date 23 June 2016

Published in European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2013.11.018

zbMATH Keywords

Markov decision processesambulance diversionemergency departments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of mathematical programming (90C90) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40)

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