Il blocco operatorio costituisce lo snodo centrale del percorso chirurgico. In un’ottica lean di revisione dei processi, la programmazione chirurgica deve mantenere allineato il servizio con la domanda. Di conseguenza, è necessario trovare il giusto compromesso tra l’esigenza di mantenere...

This research aims at supporting hospital management in making prompt Operating Room (OR) planning decisions, when either unpredicted events occur or alternative scenarios or configurations need to be rapidly evaluated. We design and test a planning tool enabling managers to efficiently analyse...

Optimization of simulated systems is the goal of many methods, but most methods assume known environments. We, however, develop a `robust' methodology that accounts for uncertain environments. Our methodology uses Taguchi's view of the uncertain world, but replaces his statistical techniques by...

Optimization of simulated systems is tackled by many methods, but most methods assume known environments. This article, however, develops a 'robust' methodology for uncertain environments. This methodology uses Taguchi's view of the uncertain world, but replaces his statistical techniques by...