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

This paper provides a review of recent operational research on operating room planning
and scheduling. We evaluate the literature on multiple fields that are related to either the …

We provide a comprehensive overview of the typical decisions to be made in resource
capacity planning and control in health care, and a structured review of relevant articles from …

Operating theatre represents one of the most critical and expensive hospital resources since
a high percentage of the hospital admissions is due to surgical interventions. The main …

This book is an outgrowth of an earlier text that appeared in 1999 under the title “Operations
Scheduling with Applications in Manufacturing and Services”, coauthored with Xiuli Chao …

In hospitals, the operating room (OR) is a particularly expensive facility and thus efficient
scheduling is imperative. This can be greatly supported by using advanced methods that are …

COVID-19 has disrupted healthcare operations and resulted in large-scale cancellations of
elective surgery. Hospitals throughout the world made life-altering resource allocation …

Given a surgery department comprising several specialties that share a fixed number of
operating rooms and post-surgery beds, we study the joint operating room (OR) planning …

This paper proposes and evaluates a number of models for building surgery schedules with
leveled resulting bed occupancy. The developed models involve two types of constraints …

Many systems or applications have been developed for distributed environments with the
goal of attaining multiple objectives in the face of environmental challenges such as high …