Many combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) encountered in real-world logistics,
transportation, production, healthcare, financial, telecommunication, and computing …

This paper presents a review of the literature on multi-appointment scheduling problems in
hospitals. In these problems, patients need to sequentially visit multiple resource types in a …

This paper integrates simulation with optimization to design a decision support tool for the
operation of an emergency department unit at a governmental hospital in Kuwait. The …

Over the past 40 years, health care organizations have faced ever-increasing pressures to
deliver quality care while facing rising costs, lower reimbursements, and new regulatory …

Patient's congestion and their long waiting times in Emergency Departments (EDs) are the
most common problems in hospitals. This paper extends application domain of metamodels …

Currently, stochastic optimization on the one hand and multi-objective optimization on the
other hand are rich and well-established special fields of Operations Research. Much less …

We consider an ambulatory care unit (ACU) in a large cancer centre, where operational and
resource utilization challenges led to overcrowding, excessive delays, and concerns …

This research gave an overview of coordinated hospital planning issues. In these issues,
patients desire an arrangement for different source types, ideally as quickly as time permits …

Due to increasing demand, the oncology clinics have been experiencing higher workloads
and increasing delays in laboratory, pharmacy and chemotherapy administration areas. In …

We present the results obtained after using a simulation model for estimating the maximum
possible demand increment in an emergency room of a private hospital in Chile. To achieve …