A Multi-Objective Scheduling and Routing Problem for Home Health Care Services via Brain Storm Optimization

At present, home health care (HHC) has been accepted as an effective method for handling the healthcare problems of elderly. The HHC scheduling and routing problem (HHCSRP) attracts wide concentration from academia industrial communities. This work proposes HHCSRP considering several centers, where a group customers (i.e., patients elderly) require being assigned to centers. Then, various kinds services are provided by caregivers in different regions. By skill matching, customers' appointment time, caregivers' workload balancing, this article formulates optimization model with multiple objectives achieve minimal service cost delay cost. To handle it, we then introduce brain storm particular multi-objective search mechanisms (MOBSO) via combining features investigated HHCSRP. Moreover, perform experiments test effectiveness designed method. Via comparing MOBSO two excellent optimizers, results confirm that developed significant superiority addressing considered