Listar por autor "Méndez-Fernández, Isabel"
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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 heuristic approach to the task planning problem in a home care business
Méndez-Fernández, Isabel; Lorenzo Freire, Silvia; García-Jurado, Ignacio; Costa, Julián; Carpente, Luisa (Springer, 2020-12)[Abstract]: In this paper, we study a task scheduling problem in a home care business. The company has a set of supervisors in charge of scheduling the caregivers’ weekly plans. This can be a time-consuming task due to the ... -
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 ... -
Decision Support Systems for Scheduling and Routing Problems in a Home Care Business
Méndez-Fernández, Isabel (2023)[Abstract] Home care services aim to help elderly, sick or dependent people in maintain their quality of life without having to leave their homes. This type of problem is denoted as Home Care Scheduling Problem (HCSP) and ...