Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to generate a daily operating theater schedule aiming to minimize completion time and maximum overtime while integrating real-life surgeon constraints, such as their role, specialty, qualification and availability. Design/methodology/approach: The paper...

This paper considers the problem of bed rearrangement in hospitals and proposes some research tools to provide an effective and balanced rearrangement of beds. By studying the activity report of Habib Bourguiba Hospital, it was found that some departments have a shortage while others have a...

In most classical scheduling models, it is assumed that a job is dispatched to a customer immediately after its processing completes. In many practical situations, however, a set of delivery dates may be fixed before any jobs are processed. This is particularly relevant where delivery is an...