TY - JOUR
T1 - Multi-Objective Simulation-Based Optimization for Effective Management of the Outpatient Chemotherapy Process
AU - Hadid, Majed
AU - Elomri, Adel
AU - Jouini, Oualid
AU - Kerbache, Laoucine
AU - Saleh, Ahmed
AU - Hamad, Anas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Outpatient chemotherapy departments' operational harmony depends on the proper strategic, tactical, and operational decisions. The integrated consideration of capacity dimensioning, resources planning, scheduling policy, appointment planning, scheduling, and resources-to-patients assignment can improve the outpatient chemotherapy process's (OCP) overall performance due to interdependencies. However, developing a comprehensive and stochastic OCP decision support system is complex. Thus, the planning, scheduling, and assignment problems are rarely addressed together. Therefrom, a multi-objective simulation-based optimization approach is proposed in this paper to handle the various OCP challenges. The proposed approach showed superior performance compared to a baseline using real data from an outpatient chemotherapy center.
AB - Outpatient chemotherapy departments' operational harmony depends on the proper strategic, tactical, and operational decisions. The integrated consideration of capacity dimensioning, resources planning, scheduling policy, appointment planning, scheduling, and resources-to-patients assignment can improve the outpatient chemotherapy process's (OCP) overall performance due to interdependencies. However, developing a comprehensive and stochastic OCP decision support system is complex. Thus, the planning, scheduling, and assignment problems are rarely addressed together. Therefrom, a multi-objective simulation-based optimization approach is proposed in this paper to handle the various OCP challenges. The proposed approach showed superior performance compared to a baseline using real data from an outpatient chemotherapy center.
KW - artificial intelligence
KW - blackbox optimization
KW - cancer
KW - decision making heuristic
KW - multi objectives
KW - oncology health care
KW - outpatient chemotherapy
KW - planning
KW - scheduling
KW - stochastic simulation based optimization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85144519099&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.09.632
DO - 10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.09.632
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85144519099
SN - 2405-8963
VL - 55
SP - 1639
EP - 1644
JO - IFAC-PapersOnLine
JF - IFAC-PapersOnLine
IS - 10
T2 - 10th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control, MIM 2022
Y2 - 22 June 2022 through 24 June 2022
ER -