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Case-Oriented Paper

Hospital Layout as a Quadratic Assignment Problem

Pages 167-179 | Published online: 19 Dec 2017
 

Abstract

The problem of locating hospital departments so as to minimize the total distance travelled by patients can be formulated as a Quadratic Assignment Problem. In this paper we discuss some practical considerations of the problem, its formulation, we present a heuristic procedure to solve it and comment on our computational experience with the heuristic.

This paper was presented at the ORS Annual Conference, Loughborough, 23-26 Sept. 1975.

This paper was presented at the ORS Annual Conference, Loughborough, 23-26 Sept. 1975.

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