Exact and Heuristic Solutions to Minimize Total Waiting Time in the Blood Products Distribution Problem

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The neighborhoods and their applied order in the VNS improvement scheme.

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Table 4: Exact and Heuristic Solutions to Minimize Total Waiting Time in the Blood Products Distribution Problem 