Optimizing the strategic patient mix combining queueing theory and dynamic programming

DOI10.1016/J.COR.2013.09.020MaRDI QIDQ336926zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Peter T. Vanberkel, Richard J. Boucherie, Erwin W. Hans, Johann L. Hurink

Publication date 10 November 2016

Published in Computers \& Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2013.09.020

zbMATH Keywords

combinatorial optimizationdynamic programmingqueueing theorydiagnosis related groupsproject sequencing problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Dynamic programming (90C39) Integer programming (90C10)

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• Sequencing Capacity Expansion Projects in Continuous Time
• Technical Note—Multidimensional Sequencing Rule
• The Discrete-Time Sequencing Expansion Problem
• The \(k\)-partitioning problem

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