Scheduling

Single-entry waitlist surgical scheduling
Scheduling surgeries in a central waitlist across multiple collaborating hospitals and surgeons to maximize total surgeries and minimize wait times
Increased surgical capacity without additional resources: Generalized operating room planning and scheduling
We study a generalized operating room planning and scheduling (GORPS) problem at the Toronto General Hospital (TGH) in Ontario, Canada. …
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Logic-based benders decomposition and binary decision diagram based approaches for stochastic distributed operating room scheduling
The distributed operating room (OR) scheduling problem aims to find an assignment of surgeries to ORs across collaborating hospitals …
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Branch-and-check methods for multi-level operating room planning and scheduling
We develop the first exact decomposition approaches for a multi-level operating room planning and scheduling problem that integrates …
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Reformulation, linearization, and decomposition techniques for balanced distributed operating room scheduling
We study the balanced distributed operating room (OR) scheduling (BDORS) problem as a location-allocation model, encompassing two …
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Logic-based benders decomposition and binary decision diagram based approaches for stochastic distributed operating room scheduling
The distributed operating room (OR) scheduling problem aims to find an assignment of surgeries to ORs across collaborating hospitals …
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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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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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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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