Endoscopies Scheduling Problem: A Case Study
(2006) INCOM — Location: Saint-Etienne, France
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Meskens, Nadine 
- Abstract
- The efficient management of an operating theatre involves the problems of planning and scheduling, and this is the same case for endoscopy center. The research aims at building a feasible and efficient operating program within one week for an endoscopy unit composed of two specialized operating rooms, with an objective of both maximizing the utilization of operating rooms and minimizing their overtime cost. At the planning stage, a tactical planning model for one week is built and is solved by a column-generation based heuristic (CGBH) procedure. The solution of the planning stage assigns each operating room to a set of surgical cases on each day. Afterwards, a daily scheduling problem is built at the scheduling stage in order to finally schedule the surgical cases assigned at the planning stage. This daily scheduling model is firstly simplified by a group technology into an "open shop" model and then solved by the Gonzalez-Sahni algorithm. As a result, a final operating program is ob
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Louvain School of Management
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Fei, H., Combes, C., Chu, C., & Meskens, N. (2006). Endoscopies Scheduling Problem: A Case Study. INCOM, Saint-Etienne, France. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/128912