Improving hospital bed occupancy and resource utilization through queuing modeling and evolutionary computation
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biomedical Informatics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1532-0464
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2014.11.010