Advanced resource planning in the healthcare sector: impact of time-varying demand.

The objective of the proposed project is to develop a framework for aggregate resource planning, in view of its specific application in the healthcare industry. The proposal incorporates fundamental research aimed at improving patient flow in hospitals, through an advanced approach for capacity planning of resources, which explicitly takes into account the time-varying aspect of the demand for healthcare services. We intend to make fundamental extensions to the issue of time-varying demand, more specifically the way in which these variations can be met with changes in capacity, in order to ensure that patients can be taken care of within an acceptable timeframe also in periods of peak demand.

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Disciplines:Manufacturing engineering, Other mechanical and manufacturing engineering, Product development, Business administration and accounting, Management, Applied mathematics in specific fields, Statistics and numerical methods