Title: An overview of home health care routing and scheduling

　　Speaker: Yin Yunqiang Professor, Doctoral Supervisor

　　Work unit: School of Economics and Management, University of Electronic Science and Technology

　　Reporting time: 4:00 PM on May 31, 2018

　　Location: Room 317, Main Building

　　Brief introduction:

　　This talk focuses on the home health care routing and scheduling problem (HHCRSP), a field that has received much research attention in recent years. Briefly stated, HHCRSP is that of designing a set of routes used by caregivers to perform various services at patients' homes. Hence, care activities, i.e., patient visits, must be planned to decrease costs and to guarantee service quality while respecting several constraints. This talk provides an overview of recent OR models developed for the HHCRSP by identifying the most relevant features considered in the HHCRSP models, analyzing the existing literature according to the way the different studies formulate the constraints and objective functions, providing an overview of methods developed to solve the HHCRSP, and discussing future research directions.

　　Speaker's profile:

　　Yinyun Yun, Professor, Ph.D., PhD supervisor of School of Economics and Management, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He graduated from Beijing Normal University in 2009 with a Ph.D. in applied mathematics, and was promoted to a professor in 2014. He was elected to the list of high-cited scholars in China published by Elsevier for four consecutive years (2014-2017). He is currently a director of the Sorting Professional Committee of the China Operational Research Society, and a member of the China Operations Research Society Medical Operations Management Branch. He has served as Lead Guest Editor for two special topics in SCI journals. Professor YUN Yun-Qiang has long been committed to the research of production and logistics operation management and medical operation management, and has achieved fruitful research results in international mainstream journals such as NRL, Omega, EJOR, ANOR, IJPE, IJPR, COR, JOS, and IEEE Transactions on SMC. He has published more than 80 SCI papers, including SCI he cited more than 800 times, and 5 papers have entered the ESI high cited list. There are 3 National Natural Science Foundation Projects and 4 provincial and ministerial level projects.