212. The Integrated Healthcare Timetabling Competition (IHTC-2024)
Contributed abstract in session TC-5: IHTC-2024, stream Plenaries.
Tuesday, 14:00-15:30Room: Room S6
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Andrea Schaerf
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| Polytechnic Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Udine | |
| 2. | Sara Ceschia
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| Polytechnic Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Udine | |
| 3. | Roberto Maria Rosati
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| WU Vienna University of Economics and Business | |
| 4. | Pieter Smet
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| Computer Science, KU Leuven | |
| 5. | Greet Vanden Berghe
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| Computer Science, KU Leuven | |
| 6. | Eugenia Zanazzo
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| Polytechnic Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Udine |
Abstract
In this talk, we present the International Integrated Healthcare Competition: a new competition for optimization methods that intends to stimulate research focusing on the specifics of integrated scheduling problems in healthcare. We will provide an overview of all aspects of the competition, which will begin in September 2024 and will finish in March 2025.
First, we will introduce the considered problem, which integrates three critical problems in healthcare: surgical case planning, patient admission scheduling and nurse-to-room assignment. Second, we will describe all the necessary infrastructure provided to support the competition's participants: datasets, file formats, and solution validator. Finally, we state the rules of the competition.
All up-to-date information about the competition will be available in a dedicated repository on GitHub
Keywords
- Integrated planning of health services
- Benchmarking
- Optimization algorithms
Status: accepted
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