Author
Mobasher, A., Ekici, Ali, Özener, Okan Örsan
Publication Date
2015-09
Publication Place
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Elsevier
Subject
Blood collection, Appointment scheduling, Platelet production, Clustering, Mixed integer programming
Type
Periodical
Language
English
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
0360-8352
Record ID
d8f877c9-8ed8-479b-936b-85a9c2fde449
Library Location
Industrial Engineering
Date
2015-09
Notes
Due to copyright restrictions, the access to the full text of this article is only available via subscription.
Sample Text
According to the regulations imposed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the American Association of Blood Banks, in order to extract platelets, donated blood units have to be processed at a processing center within six hours of donation time. In this paper, considering this processing time requirement of donated blood units for platelet production we study collection and appointment scheduling operations at the blood donation sites. Specifically, given the blood donation network of a blood collection organization, we try to coordinate pickup and appointment schedules at the blood donation sites to maximize platelet production. We call the problem under consideration Integrated Collection and Appointment Scheduling Problem. We first provide a mixed integer linear programming model for the problem. Then, we propose a heuristic algorithm called Integer Programming Based Algorithm. We perform a computational study to test the performance of the proposed model and algorithm in terms of solution quality and computational efficiency on the instances from Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center located in Houston, TX.
DOI
10.1016/j.cie.2015.05.020
Cilt
87
