Social and health care services as a two-objective optimization problem

Pasi Fränti; Pasi Fränti

doi:10.3934/aci.2026005

Applied Computing and Intelligence

2026, Volume 6, Issue 1: 79-88. doi: 10.3934/aci.2026005

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Social and health care services as a two-objective optimization problem

Pasi Fränti ^,

School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

Academic Editor: Chic-Cheng Hung

Received: 20 March 2026 Revised: 06 May 2026 Accepted: 06 May 2026 Published: 11 May 2026

Optimizing health care services can be considered as an optimization problem, but what exactly should we optimize? We present the problem as a two-objective optimization problem, minimizing cost and maximizing quality. The challenge is that, even if we had concrete quality indicators for all health care sectors, it is not clear how we would solve it. In this paper, we discuss alternative scenarios for solving the problem and the pitfalls we should avoid.
- health care services,
- optimization
Citation: Pasi Fränti. Social and health care services as a two-objective optimization problem[J]. Applied Computing and Intelligence, 2026, 6(1): 79-88. doi: 10.3934/aci.2026005

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Abstract

Optimizing health care services can be considered as an optimization problem, but what exactly should we optimize? We present the problem as a two-objective optimization problem, minimizing cost and maximizing quality. The challenge is that, even if we had concrete quality indicators for all health care sectors, it is not clear how we would solve it. In this paper, we discuss alternative scenarios for solving the problem and the pitfalls we should avoid.

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