Hospitals are huge and complex systems. However, for many years, the management was
commonly focused on improving the quality of the medical care, while less attention was …

The imbalanced development among different levels of healthcare facilities has become a
major social issue in China's urban healthcare system, which has raised the irrational …

A multi-level framework that combines a simulation and optimization approach is proposed
to evaluate the performance of complex systems triggered by real-time IoT-fed “service …

Medical Imaging Centers (MIC) are critical units in every hospital or medical center because
they are an important step in generating a patient's diagnostic. This paper shows a simulator …

Este artículo presenta los resultados de la utilización de herramientas de optimización
estocástica, mediante simulación y metodología de superficie de respuesta, en un caso real …

This study presents an innovative approach integrating simulation and design of Experiment
techniques as a powerful stochastic optimization method, coupled with a multi-objective …

The guest editors wish to thank all the authors for their contributions. We hope that the
papers included in this special issue will be of value to the audience of the Simulation …

ABSTRACT Medical Imaging Centers (MIC) are critical units in every hospital or medical
center because they are an important step in generating a patient's diagnostic. This paper …

The main subject matter of this thesis concerns radiotherapy patient scheduling
subproblems formulated as four separate shop scheduling problem models (ie hybrid …

Scheduling with preemptive jobs and resource dependence times is a problem that
operation managers face everyday, and the computational complexity of the problem also …