Operating Room Scheduling Problem using Genetic Algorithms

A metaheuristic approach for solving Operating Room Scheduling (or Operating Theatre Scheduling)

Motivation

• Deterministic approach is viable in small data set optimization problems (e.g. Knapsack Problem with 4 items) and always offers the best solution.
• Metaheuristics obtain approximated solutions and have faster execution time and lower computational resources requirements.
• Real world optimization challenges are complex and involve many features and constraints (e.g. Operating Room Scheduling).
• Metaheuristics are suitable for this kind of problems.