Determination of Optimal Variable-Sized Multiple-Block Appointment Systems

DOI10.1287/OPRE.29.2.324zbMath0473.90037DBLPjournals/ior/FriesM81OpenAlexW2086738452WikidataQ77489356 ScholiaQ77489356MaRDI QIDQ3929519

Brant E. Fries, Vijay P. Marathe

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.29.2.324

zbMATH Keywords

approximationshealth carecomputational resultsanalytical resultsoptimal variable-sized multiple-block appointment systemssingle-server multiple-block system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical mathematical programming methods (65K05) Applications of mathematical programming (90C90) Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Dynamic programming (90C39)

Related Items (8)

Balancing herding and congestion in service systems: a queueing perspective ⋮ Matching daily healthcare provider capacity to demand in advanced access scheduling systems ⋮ Optimized appointment scheduling ⋮ A stochastic appointment scheduling system on multiple resources with dynamic call-in sequence and patient no-shows for an outpatient clinic ⋮ Optimal appointment scheduling in continuous time: the lag order approximation method ⋮ A stochastic programming model for service scheduling with uncertain demand: an application in open-access clinic scheduling ⋮ A tandem queueing model for an appointment-based service system ⋮ Evaluating the impact of operating conditions on the performance of appointment scheduling rules in service systems

This page was built for publication: Determination of Optimal Variable-Sized Multiple-Block Appointment Systems