When to discharge a patient plays an important role in hospital patient flow management
and the quality of care and patient outcomes. In this work, we develop and implement a data …

Emergency departments (EDs) are facing increasing overcrowding and long patient waiting
time, which is mainly caused by the time-varying demand of new and returning patients. In …

We study a control problem for queueing systems in which customers may return for
additional episodes of service after their initial service completion. At each service …

Reactive capacity allocation (RCA) may be a good way to raise capacity utilization and
customer satisfaction. However, there are unintended consequences that are often …

The success of reverse referral service for integrated care, whereby a city hospital transfers
patients finishing operations to a community one for follow-up treatment, generally depends …

In determining the economic efficiency of an investment project, the rationale and choice of
the discount rate is the most difficult step. The methods of investment assessment are built …

Motivated by an intriguing observation of a time-varying pattern in physician productivity
(measured by the number of new patients seen per hour, or PPH), we study a continuous …

In this paper, we consider a retrial queue with a state-dependent service rate as a
mathematical model of a node of FANET communications. We suppose that the arrival …

We investigate the dynamic allocation of limited service capacity to customers with the
possibility of return due to early service termination. This issue is inspired by patient flow …

An alternative mathematical programming formulation is considered for a mixed-integer
optimization problem in queueing networks. The sum of the blocking probabilities of a …