To promote sustainable development, the smart city implies a global vision that merges
artificial intelligence, big data, decision making, information and communication technology …

Multi-disciplinary planning in health care is an emerging research field that applies to many
health care areas with similar underlying planning characteristics. We provide a review of …

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

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 considers a class of multi-objective production–distribution scheduling problem
with a single machine and multiple vehicles. The objective is to minimize the vehicle delivery …

Improving patient flow is a way to refine health services. An efficient patient flow can improve
the quality of services and the utilization of resources. A smart environment could facilitate …

We study the problem of scheduling outpatient chemotherapy infusion appointments at
oncology clinics. Patients are prepared during a fixed initial period of their infusion …

This study presents a simulation optimization approach for scheduling medical tourists who
travel to destination medical centers (DMCs). The objective of this research is two-fold:(1) to …

The surgery ward is the most expensive and profitable section of a hospital. The decisions
made in this section therefore produce significant effects on the overall performance of the …

Scheduling appointments in a multi-disciplinary clinic is complex, since coordination
between disciplines is required. The design of a blueprint schedule for a multi-disciplinary …