Optimization

Large-scale decomposition strategies for collaborative operating room planning and scheduling
Operating rooms (ORs) play a substantial role in hospital profitability, and their optimal utilization is conducive to containing the …
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Propagating logic-based Benders' decomposition approaches for distributed operating room scheduling
We develop three novel logic-based Benders' decomposition (LBBD) approaches and a cut propagation mechanism to solve large-scale …
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The senior transportation problem
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A discrete event simulation evaluation of distributed operating room scheduling
Operating room (OR) scheduling is a challenging combinatorial problem and hence most optimization-based OR scheduling research makes …
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Optimization methods for high dose rate brachytherapy treatment planning
Optimization approaches for treatment planning in two novel high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy techniques, direction-modulation …
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Robotic path-finding in inverse treatment planning for stereotactic radiosurgery with continuous dose delivery
Purpose: Continuous dose delivery in radiation therapy treatments has been shown to decrease total treatment time while improving the …
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Robotic path-finding in inverse treatment planning with continuous dose delivery for stereotactic radiosurgery
Optimization approaches for treatment planning in two novel high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy techniques, direction-modulation …
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A fast beam orientation optimization method that enforces geometric constraints in IMRT for total marrow irradiation
The beam orientation optimization (BOO) problem for intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is the selection of beams for …
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An examination of Benders' decomposition approaches in large-scale healthcare optimization problems
Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) offers localized and minimally invasive thermal ablation of small-to-medium sized inoperable superficial …
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Deriving pandemic disease mitigation strategies by mining social contact networks
In this chapter we propose a robust approach to deriving disease mitigation strategies from contact networks that are generated from …
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