Approximate dynamic programming approaches for appointment scheduling with patient preferences

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Highlights:

• We study an appointment scheduling problem with patient preferences.

• Attributes of the model are studied theoretically and experimentally.

• Approximate dynamic programming approaches are developed.

摘要

•We study an appointment scheduling problem with patient preferences.•Attributes of the model are studied theoretically and experimentally.•Approximate dynamic programming approaches are developed.

论文关键词:Appointment scheduling,Health service,Dynamic programming,Markov processes

论文评审过程:Received 3 April 2017, Revised 12 September 2017, Accepted 6 February 2018, Available online 23 February 2018, Version of Record 16 March 2018.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2018.02.001