The single-day surgery scheduling problem: sequential decision-making and threshold-based heuristics

DOI10.1007/s00291-011-0270-3zbMath1239.90049OpenAlexW2164108509MaRDI QIDQ427505

William L. Herring, Jeffrey W. Herrmann

Publication date: 13 June 2012

Published in: OR Spectrum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00291-011-0270-3

zbMATH Keywords

heuristicsdynamic programminghealthcaresurgery scheduling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research (90B35) Dynamic programming (90C39)

Related Items

Assigning surgery cases to operating rooms: a VNS approach for leveling ward beds occupancies ⋮ A two level metaheuristic for the operating room scheduling and assignment problem ⋮ Scheduling operating rooms: achievements, challenges and pitfalls ⋮ Next-day operating room scheduling with uncertain surgery durations: exact analysis and heuristics ⋮ The effect of few historical data on the performance of sample average approximation method for operating room scheduling ⋮ Operating room planning and surgical case scheduling: a review of literature ⋮ Propagating logic-based Benders' decomposition approaches for distributed operating room scheduling ⋮ Solving 0-1 semidefinite programs for distributionally robust allocation of surgery blocks

Cites Work

• Capacity allocation for demand of different customer-product-combinations with cancellations, no-shows, and overbooking when there is a sequential delivery of service
• Approximate dynamic programming for capacity allocation in the service industry
• A decision support system for cyclic master surgery scheduling with multiple objectives
• Building cyclic master surgery schedules with leveled resulting bed occupancy
• Sequencing surgical cases in a day-care environment: an exact branch-and-price approach
• Operating room planning and scheduling: a literature review
• A goal programming approach to strategic resource allocation in acute care hospitals
• Surgical case scheduling as a generalized job shop scheduling problem
• Robust surgery loading
• A master surgical scheduling approach for cyclic scheduling in operating room departments
• Airline Yield Management with Overbooking, Cancellations, and No-Shows
• Dynamic Airline Revenue Management with Multiple Semi-Markov Demand
• Reservation Planning for Elective Surgery Under Uncertain Demand for Emergency Surgery