Reactive scheduling model for the operating theatr

Authors: Kari Stuart Erhan Kozan

Publish Date: 2011/08/04

Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 400-421

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Abstract

This paper addresses the disruption management and rescheduling problem of the daytoday running of a day surgery unit The problem is modelled as a single machine scheduling problem with sequence dependent processing times and due dates The proposed optimisation model sequences both elective and nonelective patients in the online environment The weighted number of expected surgeries to complete ontime is maximised We propose a branch and bound algorithm to solve the problem Computational experiments are conducted illustrating its applicability to the problem of reactive scheduling in the operating theatre

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