Using stochastic programming to solve an outpatient appointment scheduling problem with random service and arrival times

Business & Economics

• Appointment Scheduling 100%
• Stochastic Programming 77%
• Outpatient 75%
• Mixed Integer Program 63%
• Scheduling Problem 60%
• Two-stage Model 36%
• Upper Bound 29%
• Rescheduling 25%
• Lower Bounds 18%
• Schedule 14%
• Solvability 14%
• Valid Inequalities 13%
• Optimality 11%
• Numerical Experiment 9%
• Probability Distribution 9%
• Alternatives 8%
• Optimization Problem 8%
• Problem Solving 8%
• Optimal Solution 8%

Mathematics

• Arrival Time 84%
• Stochastic Programming 83%
• Scheduling Problem 67%
• Mixed Integer Program 67%
• Policy 55%
• Two-stage Model 42%
• Rescheduling 33%
• Schedule 20%
• Upper bound 12%
• Alternatives 11%
• Valid Inequalities 11%
• Optimal Solution 8%
• Optimality 8%
• Upper and Lower Bounds 7%
• Solvability 7%
• Probability Distribution 7%
• Evaluate 7%
• Optimization Problem 6%
• Numerical Experiment 6%
• Lower bound 6%
• Formulation 6%
• Design 5%
• Range of data 5%
• Series 5%
• Demonstrate 5%

Engineering & Materials Science

• Stochastic programming 88%
• Scheduling 45%
• Probability distributions 20%
• Experiments 7%