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A weighted-sum approach to health care optimization: case studies

The aim of this project is to develop a program using the Branch and Bound method with the Weighted Sum Approach to solve the problem of allocation of personnel in a health care institution. To deal with this problem we use multi-criteria optimization and we compare and analyze the results obtained as we change the importance of the different objectives. Before focusing in the most important part of the project, we also give some explanations about different cases related with health care institutions. Some of them are related with nurse rostering problems, others talk about management and capacity planning in hospitals and some of them are related with multi criteria optimization so they are really important to understand the core of the project. All these cases have been done to approach into the health institutions problems, as an introduction to the main part of the project.