Healthcare scheduling in optimization context: a review

ZA Abdalkareem, A Amir, MA Al-Betar, P Ekhan… - Health and …, 2021 - Springer
This paper offers a summary of the latest studies on healthcare scheduling problems
including patients' admission scheduling problem, nurse scheduling problem, operation …

Scheduling by NSGA-II: Review and bibliometric analysis

I Rahimi, AH Gandomi, K Deb, F Chen, MR Nikoo - Processes, 2022 - mdpi.com
NSGA-II is an evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithm that has been applied to a
wide variety of search and optimization problems since its publication in 2000. This study …

A survey of the nurse rostering solution methodologies: The state-of-the-art and emerging trends

CM Ngoo, SL Goh, NR Sabar, S Abdullah… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an overview of recent advances for the Nurse Rostering Problem (NRP)
based on methodological papers published between 2012 to 2021. It provides a …

A survey of mat-heuristics for combinatorial optimisation problems: Variants, trends and opportunities

CM Ngoo, SL Goh, NR Sabar, MHA Hijazi… - Applied Soft …, 2024 - Elsevier
This survey paper presents an overview of recent application of mat-heuristics on
combinatorial optimisation problems (COPs) from 2018 to 2024. In this review, we …

The impact of dynamic learning and training on the personnel staffing decision

T Borgonjon, B Maenhout - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper studies the personnel staffing decision accounting for the planning of workforce
training and the inclusion of learning and forgetting, which dynamically change the …

[HTML][HTML] An integrated Lexicographic goal programming and dynamic satisfaction function model for effective nurse scheduling

Z Fourati, S Smaoui, H Kamoun - Decision Analytics Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
The nurse-scheduling is a common problem in hospitals. The problem requires a timetable
considering hospital regulations and nurses' demands and preferences. This study …

A two-layer heuristic for patient sequencing in the operating room theatre considering multiple resource phases

B Akbarzadeh, B Maenhout - Computers & Operations Research, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, we study the surgery scheduling problem in the operating room theatre. The
problem considers the sequencing of patients and calculation of their start times with …

Surgical cases assignment problem using an efficient genetic programming hyper-heuristic

L Zhu, Y Zhou, S Sun, Q Su - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The surgical case assignment problem (SCAP) is vital to the operating room planning
problem. Although several methods have been applied, the solution accuracy can be …

A column generation-based heuristic for brachytherapy patient scheduling with multiple treatment sessions considering radioactive source decay and time constraints

K Shao, W Fan, S Lan, M Kong, S Yang - Omega, 2023 - Elsevier
Imbalanced and inefficient schedules of brachytherapy treatment result in long waiting times
and a large number of waiting patients, which may raise many subsequent problems. In this …

Modeling patient preference in an operating room scheduling problem

A Ahmed, H Ali - Operations Research for Health Care, 2020 - Elsevier
When a patient needs plastic surgery and there are multiple available surgeons, the patient
selects the surgeon based on different criteria. Accommodating patient preference while …