In this paper, we study a surgical cases assignment problem (SCAP) of assigning a set of surgical cases to several multifunctional operating rooms with an objective of minimizing total operating cost. Firstly, we formulate this problem as an integer problem and then reformulate the integer...

In this work, pyridine-N was converted into NO and N2 by using a flow reactor and the dominant NO evolution pathways were identified by means of a kinetic modeling under O2/CO2 atmosphere in temperature range of 1073–1473K for different stoichiometries. The experimental results indicated...

Academic failure among first-year university students has long fuelled a large number of debates. Many educational psychologists have tried to understand and then explain it. Many statisticians have tried to foresee it. Our research aims to classify, as early in the academic year as possible,...

This paper deals with multicriteria decision-making applied to discrete-continuous scheduling problems. The need for reusability and modularity leads us to build a "generic" optimization and simulation framework, while the need to quickly generate good compromises between conflicting objectives...

In today's challenging industrial contexts, decision makers need versatile tools to quickly acquire, synthesize, simulate and optimize several solutions that can be compared from multiple points of view and according to various performance criteria. In the context of limited-time multicriteria...

This paper presents a methodological framework for planning surgery in operating theatre suites based on data warehousing and knowledge discovery in database approaches. We suggest a decisional tool which estimates the appropriate duration for a patient to be in the operating theatre. To achieve...