- roleTerm ( text )
- author
- namePart
- Mutingi, Michael
- roleTerm ( text )
- author
- namePart
- Mbohwa, Charles
- dateAccessioned
- 2015-05-27T08:16:59Z
- dateAvailable
- 2015-05-27T08:16:59Z
- dateIssued
- 2013
- text
- Mutingi, M. & Mbohwa, C. 2013. A satisfying approach to home health care worker scheduling. International Conference on Law, Entrepreneurship and Industrial Engineering, Johannesburg, South Africa.
- identifier ( isbn )
- 978-93-82242-26-0
- identifier ( uri )
- http://hdl.handle.net/10210/13781
- abstract
- The homecare worker scheduling problem is inundated with fuzzy and often conflicting goals, constraints and preferences. In such an uncertain environment, the decision maker needs to find a satisficing solution approach that takes into account the humanistic judgments and the conflicting nature of the goals. This paper proposes a fuzzy satisficing approach, based on fuzzy set theory, for addressing the homecare worker scheduling problem. The aim is to provide a satisficing approach that considers the management goals, the worker preferences, as well as the service quality as specified by the healthcare clients. By addressing the desired goals or preferences of the three players, (i) the management, (ii) the worker, and (iii) the client, the approach provides a more realistic, flexible and adaptable method for real-world healthcare staff scheduling in an uncertain environment.
- languageTerm ( rfc3066 )
- en
- publisher
- International Conference on Law, Entrepreneurship and Industrial Engineering
- accessCondition ( useAndReproduction )
- International Conference on Law, Entrepreneurship and Industrial Engineering
- topic
- Home healthcare staff scheduling
- topic
- Fuzzy sets
- title
- A satisficing approach to home healthcare worker scheduling
- genre
- Article