Principles of Constraint Programming
Principles of Constraint Programming
Utility-based decision support system for schedule optimization
Decision Support Systems
Sequencing surgical cases in a day-care environment: An exact branch-and-price approach
Computers and Operations Research
An elective surgery scheduling problem considering patient priority
Computers and Operations Research
MOPEN: A computational package for Linear Multiobjective and Goal Programming problems
Decision Support Systems
Scheduling an operating theatre under human resource constraints
Computers and Industrial Engineering
A planning and scheduling problem for an operating theatre using an open scheduling strategy
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Operating theatre scheduling with patient recovery in both operating rooms and recovery beds
Computers and Industrial Engineering
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Optimizing the daily operating room schedule can be problematic because of the many constraints that need to be taken into account, and solving this issue within a reasonable time span is difficult. The originality of the present study is the consideration of the surgical team's wishes in the establishment of an operating room schedule. To resolve the operating room scheduling problem, we took advantage of the ''expressive power'' of the constraint programming paradigm to include multiple real-life constraints in our model, such as availability, staff preferences, and affinities among staff members. The aim of this research was to optimize use of the operating room by minimizing the makespan, minimizing overtime hours, and maximizing affinities among members of the surgical team. We developed a ''generic'' model that includes most of the problems encountered in the literature as well as constraints apparent in our hospital. The results achieved when using this model in a real-life situation are presented at the end of the paper.