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This paper addresses the problem of scheduling patients in a hospital operating theatre. Three types of resources are considered: porters, operating rooms and recovery beds. The problem consists of assigning patients to the different resources in order to minimize a criterion function of their completion times. We explore the use of column generation as a decomposition approach to solve the scheduling...
This paper addresses the problem of the joint location and configuration of mobile service robots in hospitals. The robotic system consists of a set of identical base robots that can be configured with different functional modules. The robotic system is designed to perform a set of nursing and logistic activities, each requiring a robot with specific modules. The problem consists of determining the...
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