| dc.description.abstract | Logistics in Vietnam is known as a one of the sectors development industry and
contributes significantly to the country's economy. In particular, transportation is always an
integral part of logistics. In this study, the home healthcare problem is applied in Ho Chi
Minh City, the problem of moving between patient locations is solved in order to optimize
the route, saving transportation costs. This case applies heuristic search and mathematical
model to arrange the desired route to obtain the goal of the minimal total cost. Proposing
two research directions with two methods to achieve a solution, the first aim is to find
exact solution by integer programming, the second stage using heuristic searching tool
based on Simulated annealing algorithm by Matlab software programming to apply with
larger scale of customer. The results pointed out that the Simulated annealing algorithm in
this study helps home healthcare service to improve the process of assigning driver of each
type of vehicle with appropriate route. | en_US |
