Increased healthcare costs are pushing hospitals to reduce costs and increase the quality of
care. Operating rooms are the most important source of income and expense for hospitals …

The operating room scheduling problem is a popular research topic due to its complexity
and relevance. Previous literature reviews established a useful classification system for …

The management of costly and limited healthcare resources, such as operating rooms,
doctors, nurses, and beds, is challenged by the uncertainty of arrivals and the service time of …

Scheduling approaches for conventional surgery operating rooms in a hospital treat
surgeons as bottleneck resources directly, but do not deal with stochastic medical resources …

Operating room scheduling comprises determining the specific start timings for surgeries
and allocating the necessary resources to each scheduled surgery. It takes into account …

This medical technological advance is based on artificial intelligence to regulate the heat
distribution of patients during surgical procedures These new methods increase the patient's …

Introduction Hip and knee arthroplasties are very frequently performed surgeries with high
quality standards and continuous optimization potential. Intraoperative processes can be …

With healthcare demand rising worldwide, hospital services are increasingly needed.
Hospitals' performance is tightly linked to their surgical suite performance. Indeed, the …

Enterprise engineering is a discipline aspect of an enterprise, including designing and
modeling a system. To create a new system, we can perform manipulation of existing …

In this paper, the authors propose a new methodology relative to earlier work on the Viable
System Ontology Theory. This theory links Beer's Viability theory and Dietz's Performance in …