This paper offers a summary of the latest studies on healthcare scheduling problems
including patients' admission scheduling problem, nurse scheduling problem, operation …

Outpatient appointment scheduling problems have recently gained increasing attention. This
paper provides a comprehensive review of recent analytical and numerical optimization …

This paper provides a comprehensive survey of research on operating room planning and
scheduling problems. Aiming to give a comprehensive classification on the studied …

This work addresses multiobjective dynamic surgery scheduling problems with considering
uncertain setup time and processing time. When dealing with them, researchers have to …

In hospitals, the operating room (OR) is a particularly expensive facility and thus efficient
scheduling is imperative. This can be greatly supported by using advanced methods that are …

In recent years, some attention has been driven to modeling, simulation, and optimization
techniques capable of representing and improving discrete event systems. These …

A comprehensive review and analysis of operating room (OR) theatre scheduling problems
as well as a comparison of solution approaches along with suggestions for future studies are …

This paper studies the problem of scheduling elective surgery patients in the orthopedic
surgery division of Habib Bourguiba hospital in Tunisia. Two types of resources are …

In healthcare, the planning and the management of resources are challenging as there are
always many complex and stochastic factors in both demand and supply. Simulation …

This paper presents a comprehensive and novel mathematical model to address the
scheduling problem of inpatient surgeries. The interaction quality and compatibility level of …