Using constraint programming to schedule operating theatre
(2010) IEEE Workshop on Healthcare Management — Location: venise (12.February.2010)
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- Authors
Meskens, Nadine 
- Abstract
- The aim of this paper is to help in the management of the operating theatre in order to improve its functionality. Our research focuses on the daily scheduling of the surgical acts in an operating theatre. We also take into account specific human and material constraints that indeed exist like, for example, the surgeon’s preference for a specific operating room, a specific material or a specific team. However, it is obvious that the more the constraints, the more our problem will be complex to model and to solve. To solve this highly constrained scheduling problem, we take advantage of the constraint programming paradigm. Our constraint programming model optimizes the use of the operating theatre by minimizing the makespan, minimizing the overtime hours and maximize the affinity between members of the surgical team. This model is instanciated on a real-life problem to present some results in this paper.
- Affiliations
Louvain School of Management Operations and Information FUCaM Sciences de gestion Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale FUCaM autre FUCaM Sciences de gestion FUCaM Sciences de gestion
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Hanset, A., Duvivier, D., Roux, O., & Meskens, N. (2010). Using constraint programming to schedule operating theatre. IEEE Workshop on Healthcare Management, venise. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/250508