Strategic room type allocation for nursing wards through Markov chain modeling

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Highlights：

• The room type configuration is optimized in a heuristic search procedure.

• Patient flow is modeled as a continuous-time Markov chain.

• The search is based on an interpolated estimate of the objective function.

• Numerical experiments yield a small relative gap from the optimum.

摘要

•The room type configuration is optimized in a heuristic search procedure.•Patient flow is modeled as a continuous-time Markov chain.•The search is based on an interpolated estimate of the objective function.•Numerical experiments yield a small relative gap from the optimum.

论文关键词：Room allocation,Patient flow,Markov chains,Heuristics

论文评审过程：Received 18 April 2018, Revised 26 July 2019, Accepted 12 August 2019, Available online 19 August 2019, Version of Record 22 August 2019.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2019.101705