Emergency departments (EDs) provide medical treatment for a broad spectrum of illnesses
and injuries to patients who arrive at all hours of the day. The quality and efficient delivery of …

We study the problem of integrated staffing and scheduling under demand uncertainty. This
problem is formulated as a two-stage stochastic integer program with mixed-integer …

Problem definition: Translate data from electronic health records (EHR) into accurate
predictions on patient flows and inform daily decision making at a major hospital …

A novel approach to surrogate modeling motivated by recent advancements in parameter
dimension reduction is proposed. Specifically, the approach aims to speed-up surrogate …

This paper evaluates the retrieval of soil moisture in the top 5-cm layer at 3-km spatial
resolution using L-band dual-copolarized Soil Moisture Active-Passive (SMAP) synthetic …

An accurate forecast of Emergency Department (ED) arrivals by an hour of the day is critical
to meet patients' demand. It enables planners to match ED staff to the number of arrivals …

Importance Forecasting the volume of hospital discharges has important implications for
resource allocation and represents an opportunity to improve patient safety at periods of …

Background Efficient planning of hospital bed usage is a necessary condition to minimize
the hospital costs. In the presented work we deal with the problem of occupancy forecasting …

Abstract Although Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) is not a new technology, it has
not yet been widely adopted due to location restrictions and inefficiencies. Thermal energy …

A mismatch between staffing ratios and service demand leads to overcrowding of patients in
waiting rooms of health centers. Overcrowding consequently leads to excessive patient …