We are delighted to announce the talk given by Rachel R. Chen (UC
Davis). The title is "Outpatient Appointment Scheduling with Waiting
Time Limits". The seminar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, November
12 at 14:00 UTC.
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUoCNnaAfw5NAntItILFn4A
The abstract follows.
This paper studies outpatient appointment scheduling with waiting time
limits, in the presence of uncertain service times, patient no-shows and
unpunctual arrivals. To tackle the problem of excessively long waiting
times, policymakers may impose a waiting time limit. The introduction of
waiting time limits increases the complexity of model formulation by
significantly increasing the number of problem scenarios. To address
this challenge, we introduce the concept of virtual waiting time,
representing the additional waiting time that a patient would have to
incur to see the doctor beyond the imposed waiting time limit. Using
this construct, we are able to unify the modeling of system dynamics of
all different scenarios into one stochastic program. We develop a
tailored integer L-shaped method to solve this model and test its
effectiveness against two benchmarks. Specifically, the subproblem is a
mixed integer nonlinear program with good properties, which allow us to
deduce its optimal value without using optimization solver. We find that
the presence of waiting time limits increases the job allowance between
two adjacent patients, and the optimal schedule does not necessarily
exhibit the well-known dome-shaped pattern. We also find that waiting
time limits help reduce variation in patient waiting times across
different positions in the schedule, thereby enhancing fairness in the
schedule. Furthermore, our results indicate that in the presence of
waiting time limits, the total cost of the system is minimized when
patients tend to arrive slightly late on average. Finally, we find that
when a social planner sets the limit, the clinic has incentives to
misreport its true cost of serving each diverted patient, and an
additional fine on top of the time limits helps improve social welfare.
The next talk in our series will be:
Hoogeveen, J.A. (Utrecht University) | November 26 | Planning shunting
operations at railway hubs
For more details, please visit https://schedulingseminar.com/
With kind regards
Zdenek Hanzalek, Michael Pinedo and Guohua Wan
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Zdenek Hanzalek
Industrial Informatics Department,
Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics,
Czech Technical University in Prague,
Jugoslavskych partyzanu 1580/3, 160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic
https://rtime.ciirc.cvut.cz/~hanzalek/
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