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Publication date: 17 October 2018

Marwa Khalfalli, Fouad Ben Abdelaziz and Hichem Kamoun

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…

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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 deals with complete surgery process using multi-objective surgery scheduling approach. Furthermore, the combinatorial nature of the studied problem does not allow to solve it to optimality. Therefore, the authors developed two approaches embedded in a tabu search metaheuristic, namely, weighted sum and e-constraint, to minimize completion time and maximum overtime.

Findings

The integration of the upstream and downstream services of an intervention and the consideration of the specific constraints related to surgeons are very essential to obtaining more closed schedules to the realty.

Practical implications

The paper includes implications for the development of efficient schedules for a significant number of operations coming from different specialties throughout its complete surgery process under multi-resource constraints.

Social implications

The paper can help hospital managers and decision makers to well manage the budget by minimizing the overtime cost and by offering efficient daily operating theater schedule.

Originality/value

The results of the paper will help hospital managers and decision makers to well manage the budget by minimizing the overtime cost and offering efficient daily operating theater schedule.

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Management Decision, vol. 57 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0025-1747

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Publication date: 1 September 2007

Abdelaziz Dammak, Abdelkarim Elloumi and Hichem Kamoun

This paper aims to consider the exam timetabling of the re‐sit session in the Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences of Sfax. The objective is to find a timetable which…

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Purpose

This paper aims to consider the exam timetabling of the re‐sit session in the Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences of Sfax. The objective is to find a timetable which minimizes the number of timeslots for exams required by the enrolled students.

Design/methodology/approach

Two heuristic procedures based on graph colouring are developed and tested on real data to solve the exam timetabling problem at the faculty.

Findings

These heuristics were tested on a simple example which shows the out‐performance of the second heuristic compared with the first one. When tested with the real data of the faculty, exam size heuristic provides a timetable with a shorter timeframe; however, the timetable obtained from the second heuristic is of better quality.

Originality/value

The main contribution of this paper is to create an automated exam timetabling that helps the faculty to manage its own enterprise system.

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Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, vol. 1 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1750-6166

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Publication date: 1 September 2007

Zahir Irani and Ahmad Ghoneim

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Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, vol. 1 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1750-6166

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