Set of instances used in article "Medical staff planning for field hospital deployments: the START hospital"

The dataset presented is used in the article "Medical staff planning for field hospital deployments: the START hospital" by F. Javier Martín-Campo, M. Teresa Ortuño and Berta Ruiz-González, submitted for publication (2024).

This paper proposes a mathematical optimisation model to deal with the management of emergency staff to a field hospital from a roster of volunteers with different characteristics.

A set of Excel files is available being:

Readme: It contains the general information of the files.

Data: It contains the data (general parameters, demand, prices, charter flights, health profiles, availability and grades).

8 files with the solution for: Infeasibility test, Cost, Availability, Grades, Monoobjective, Goal Programming 1, Goal Programming 2 and Compromise Programming.