Exact and Heuristic Solutions to Minimize Total Waiting Time in the Blood Products Distribution Problem
Joint Authors
Sepehri, Mohammad Mehdi
Salehipour, Amir
Source
Advances in Operations Research
Issue
Vol. 2012, Issue 2012 (31 Dec. 2012), pp.1-25, 25 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2012-09-03
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
25
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
This paper presents a novel application of operations research to support decision making in blood distribution management.
The rapid and dynamic increasing demand, criticality of the product, storage, handling, and distribution requirements, and the different geographical locations of hospitals and medical centers have made blood distribution a complex and important problem.
In this study, a real blood distribution problem containing 24 hospitals was tackled by the authors, and an exact approach was presented.
The objective of the problem is to distribute blood and its products among hospitals and medical centers such that the total waiting time of those requiring the product is minimized.
Following the exact solution, a hybrid heuristic algorithm is proposed.
Computational experiments showed the optimal solutions could be obtained for medium size instances, while for larger instances the proposed hybrid heuristic is very competitive.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Salehipour, Amir& Sepehri, Mohammad Mehdi. 2012. Exact and Heuristic Solutions to Minimize Total Waiting Time in the Blood Products Distribution Problem. Advances in Operations Research،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-25.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Salehipour, Amir& Sepehri, Mohammad Mehdi. Exact and Heuristic Solutions to Minimize Total Waiting Time in the Blood Products Distribution Problem. Advances in Operations Research No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-25.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-468635
American Medical Association (AMA)
Salehipour, Amir& Sepehri, Mohammad Mehdi. Exact and Heuristic Solutions to Minimize Total Waiting Time in the Blood Products Distribution Problem. Advances in Operations Research. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-25.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-468635
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-468635