Medical Staff Scheduling Problem in Chinese Mobile Cabin Hospitals During Covid-19 Outbreak

  • Shaowen Lan
  • , Wenjuan Fan
  • , Kaining Shao
  • , Shanlin Yang
  • , Panos M. Pardalos

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Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the medical staff scheduling problem in the Mobile Cabin Hospital (MCH) during the pandemic outbreaks. We investigate the working contents and patterns of the medical staff in the MCH of Wuhan during the outbreak of Covid-19. Two types of medical staff are considered in the paper, i.e., physicians and nurses. Besides, two different types of physicians are considered, i.e., the expert physician and general physician, and the duties vary among different types of physicians. The objective of the studied problem is to get the minimized number of medical staff required to accomplish all the duties in the MCH during the planning horizon. To solve the studied problem, a general Variable Neighborhood Search (general VNS) is proposed, involving the initialization, the correction strategy, the neighborhood structure, the shaking procedure, the local search procedure, and the move or not procedure. The mutation operation is adopted in the shaking procedure to make sure the diversity of the solution and three neighborhood structure operations are applied in the local search procedure to improve the quality of the solution.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLearning and Intelligent Optimization - 15th International Conference, LION 15, 2021, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsDimitris E. Simos, Panos M. Pardalos, Ilias S. Kotsireas
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages211-218
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9783030921200
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event15th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, LION 15 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 20 Jun 202125 Jun 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12931 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference15th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, LION 15 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period20/06/2125/06/21

Keywords

  • Covid-19 pandemic
  • Medical staff scheduling
  • Mobile Cabin Hospital
  • Variable neighborhood search

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