This study reviews the research on planning and scheduling in healthcare published in
Production and Operations Management (POM) and other prestigious operations …

Benders decomposition uses a strategy of``learning from one's mistakes.''The aim of this
paper is to extend this strategy to a much larger class of problems. The key is to generalize …

Efficient planning of scarce resources in hospitals is a challenging task for which a large
variety of Operations Research and Management Science approaches have been …

The COVID-19 pandemic-as a massive disruption-has significantly increased the need for
medical services putting an unprecedented strain on health systems. This study presents a …

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan, there was an unreasonable
allocation between hospitals and a lack of timely transportation of medical supplies, which …

We model and solve integrated multi-period staffing, assignment, routing, and scheduling of
caregivers for home care services and obtain insights for the case under uncertainty. The …

Innovation in the sharing economy continues to thrive within healthcare systems. Emerging
internet platforms and traditional hospitals/alliances have created diverse healthcare …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on the continuity of healthcare
provision. Appointments, treatments and surgeries for non-COVID patients were often …

Constraint programming (CP) has been recently in the spotlight after new CP-based
procedures have been incorporated into state-of-the-art solvers, most notably the CP …

In this paper, we consider a two-stage stochastic weekly operating room planning problem
with an exponential number of scenarios. The objective function is to minimize the sum of …