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

Intelligent scheduling covers various tools and techniques for successfully and efficiently
solving the scheduling problems. In this paper, we provide a survey of intelligent scheduling …

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 …

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 …

There is evidence in the literature that most surgeries in hospitals are performed by a team
composed of two surgeons, and that their experience largely influences the surgery …

Operating rooms (ORs) are the greatest source of revenues for hospitals and also their
largest cost centers. When scheduling surgeries, hospitals face a trade‐off between the …

In hospitals, surgeries are treated either on an outpatient or on an inpatient basis.
Outpatients are normally routine patients that enter and leave the hospital on the same day …

The daily scheduling of an operating theatre is a highly constrained problem. In addition to
standard scheduling constraints, many additional constraints on human and material …

Surgery is a vital process in Healthcare Centers (HCs). The importance of a surgery
department is not only due to its direct impact on the health but also due to its high impact on …

Operating room schedules are regularly influenced by uncertain demands such as unknown
surgery durations or randomly arriving emergency patients. The performance of these …