Over the past few decades, modeling, simulation, and optimization tools have received
attention for their ability to represent and improve complex systems. The use of …

Emergency departments (EDs) have been becoming increasingly congested due to the
combined impacts of growing demand, access block and increased clinical capability of the …

Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a promising healthcare technology. Especially in
critical, data-driven, and complex environments such as acute care, the use of AI can …

The most commonly used techniques for addressing each Emergency Department (ED)
problem (overcrowding, prolonged waiting time, extended length of stay, excessive patient …

Purpose This study aims to investigate the factors affecting daily demand in an emergency
department (ED) and to provide a forecasting tool in a public hospital for horizons of up to …

Objective To identify trends in pediatric emergency department (ED) utilization following the
COVID-19 pandemic. Methods We performed a cross-sectional study from 37 …

Simulation-based metamodels or surrogate models are simplified models that capture the
relationship between inputs and outputs of the simulation model. The analytical expression …

Background Ensuring that the scale and hierarchical structure of health human resources
are rational, and that medical services are efficient and fair, is an important task of practical …

In the context of modern industry, optimization emerges as one of the most powerful tools,
allowing decision-makers to allocate their resources more assertively and deal with complex …

Simulation models and artificial intelligence (AI) are largely used to address healthcare and
biomedical engineering problems. Both approaches showed promising results in the …