• A Bi-Objective Scheduling Problem in a Home Care Business 

      Méndez-Fernández, Isabel; Lorenzo Freire, Silvia; González Rueda, Ángel Manuel (MDPI, 2021)
      [Abstract] In this work we study a routing and scheduling problem for a home care business. The problem is composed of two conflicting objectives, therefore we study it as a bi-objective one. We obtain the Pareto frontier ...
    • A Task Planning Problem in a Home Care Business 

      Méndez-Fernández, Isabel; García-Jurado, Ignacio; Lorenzo Freire, Silvia; Costa, Julián (MDPI AG, 2018-09-19)
      [Abstract] This work focuses on the study of a task planning problem in a home care business. The objective is to schedule the working days of the available nurses, in order to assist all the active clients. Due to the ...
    • An Adaptive Large Neighbourhood Search algorithm for a real-world Home Care Scheduling Problem with time windows and dynamic breaks 

      Méndez-Fernández, Isabel; Lorenzo Freire, Silvia; González Rueda, Ángel Manuel (Elsevier Ltd, 2023-11)
      [Abstract]: This paper presents a Home Care Scheduling Problem (from now on HCSP) based on a real case of a care company for elderly and dependent people located in the North of Spain. The problem incorporates many of the ...
    • Two-stage optimization methods to solve the DNA-sample allocation problem 

      Noceda-Davila, Diego; Lorenzo Freire, Silvia; Carpente, Luisa (MDPI, 2022-11)
      [Abstract]: This paper deals with new methods capable of solving the optimization problem concerning the allocation of DNA samples in plates in order to carry out the DNA sequencing with the Sanger technique. These methods ...