Efficient scheduling of integrated operating rooms and post-anesthesia care units under uncertain surgery and recovery times: an artificial neural network-metaheuristic framework - Ahmadian, Mohammad Amin; Varmazyar, Mohsen; Fallahi, Ali (Soft computing (Berlin, Germany), 2025)
Keywords: Anesthesia; Artificial neural networks; Computer simulation; COVID-19; Data mining; Decision making; Deviation; Genetic algorithms; Health care expenditures; Heuristic methods; Hospital costs; Hospitals; Integer programming; Lateness; Medical wastes; Monte Carlo simulation; Nurses; Optimization techniques; Parameters; Particle swarm optimization; Patient satisfaction; Planning; Recovery; Scheduling; Simulated annealing; Solution space; Statistical analysis; Supply chains; Surgeons; Surgery; Tabu search; Taguchi methods; Uncertainty; Variance analysis