Approximate dynamic programming for the aeromedical evacuation dispatching problem: Value function approximation utilizing multiple level aggregation
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DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2018.12.009
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Military aeromedical evacuation; Emergency medical services system; Markov decision process; Approximate dynamic programming;All these keywords.
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