Determination of Optimal Variable-Sized Multiple-Block Appointment Systems

DOI10.1287/OPRE.29.2.324MaRDI QIDQ3929519zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Brant E. Fries, Vijay P. Marathe

Publication date 1981

Published in Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.29.2.324

zbMATH Keywords

health careapproximationscomputational resultsanalytical resultsoptimal variable-sized multiple-block appointment systemssingle-server multiple-block system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical mathematical programming methods (65K05) Applications of mathematical programming (90C90) Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Dynamic programming (90C39)

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• Balancing herding and congestion in service systems: a queueing perspective
• Evaluating the impact of operating conditions on the performance of appointment scheduling rules in service systems
• Matching daily healthcare provider capacity to demand in advanced access scheduling systems
• A stochastic programming model for service scheduling with uncertain demand: an application in open-access clinic scheduling

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