TY - GEN
T1 - A fuzzy particle swarm optimization approach for task assignment in home health care
AU - Mutingi, M.
AU - Mbohwa, C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 IEEE.
PY - 2014/11/18
Y1 - 2014/11/18
N2 - The assignment of care tasks to healthcare staff in home care organizations is complex. Necessitated by the ever increasing home-based care needs, the need to improve healthcare service quality and efficiency, staff morale, and business competitiveness over the long term, the design of high quality task schedules is imperative. It is especially important to improve high quality task schedules by ensuring that staff workloads are fairly balanced as much as possible. As such, the desired goal is to minimize workload imbalance, while avoiding long distance travels to patients and violation of patients' time windows. However, in practice, the goal is often subjective and imprecise as it involves human preferences from the care givers, the management, and the patients. The present paper develops a fuzzy particle swarm optimization (FPSO) for care task assignment in a home healthcare setting. The FPSO approach uses fuzzy evaluation based on fuzzy set theory. Illustrative computational results show that the approach is promising.
AB - The assignment of care tasks to healthcare staff in home care organizations is complex. Necessitated by the ever increasing home-based care needs, the need to improve healthcare service quality and efficiency, staff morale, and business competitiveness over the long term, the design of high quality task schedules is imperative. It is especially important to improve high quality task schedules by ensuring that staff workloads are fairly balanced as much as possible. As such, the desired goal is to minimize workload imbalance, while avoiding long distance travels to patients and violation of patients' time windows. However, in practice, the goal is often subjective and imprecise as it involves human preferences from the care givers, the management, and the patients. The present paper develops a fuzzy particle swarm optimization (FPSO) for care task assignment in a home healthcare setting. The FPSO approach uses fuzzy evaluation based on fuzzy set theory. Illustrative computational results show that the approach is promising.
KW - Home health care
KW - fuzzy theory
KW - particle swarm optimization
KW - staff scheduling
KW - task assignment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84914164636&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IEEM.2013.6962576
DO - 10.1109/IEEM.2013.6962576
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84914164636
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
SP - 1077
EP - 1081
BT - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2013
Y2 - 10 December 2013 through 13 December 2013
ER -