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Hospital Layout as a Quadratic Assignment Problem
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The problem of locating hospital departments so as to minimize the total distance travelled by patients can be formulated as a Quadratic Assignment Problem. In this paper we discuss some practical considerations of the problem, its formulation, we present a heuristic procedure to solve it and comment on our computational experience with the heuristic.
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Assignment Problems and the Location of Economic Activities
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Kammerdiner, A., Gevezes, T., Pasiliao, E., Pitsoulis, L., & Pardalos, P. M. (2013) · Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science · doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-1153-7_1152 · Cited by 273
Lean-oriented layout design of a health care facility
Fogliatto, F. S., Tortorella, G. L., Anzanello, M. J., & Tonetto, L. M. (2019) · Quality Management in Health Care · doi:10.1097/qmh.0000000000000193 · Cited by 28
Metadata
- Authors
- Elshafei, A. N.
- Venue
- Journal of the Operational Research Society
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1977-04
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 167-179
- ISSN
- 0160-5682 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-9360
- OpenAlex
- W1981081845
- Cited by
- 275
- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 9.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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