Research Article
A Probabilistic Patient Scheduling Model with Time Variable Slots
Table 1
Comparison across recent studies.
| Study | Modeling approach | No-shows | Service time | App. interval | Scheduling |
| Cayirli et al. [12] (2006) | Rules | 1-class | Long\short (deterministic) | Variable | Online | Huang and Verduzco [13] (2015) | Rules | 1-class | Objective (deterministic) | Variable | Online | Bentayeb et al. [14] (2019) | Rules | 1-class | Predicted (deterministic) | Variable | Online | Ratcliffe et al. [15] (2012) | SP (analytical) | 2-class (simulated) | Fixed | Fixed | Offline | Muthraman and Lawley [16] (2008) | SP (analytical) | N-class (simulated) | Exponential (stochastic) | Fixed | Online | Zacarias et al. [10] (2014) | SP (analytical) | N-class (simulated) | Log-normal (stochastic) | Fixed | Online | C. Yan et al. [17] (2015) | SP | N-class (simulated) | Exponential (stochastic) | Fixed | Online | Samorani and Harris [18] (2019) | SMIP | N-class (predicted) | Fixed | Fixed | Online | Savelsbergh and Smilowitz [19] (2016) | ILP | N-class | Fixed | Fixed | Offline | Ruiz Hernández et al. [11] (2019) | MIP | Predicted Probabilities | Fixed | Fixed | Offline | Proposed scheduling | ILP | Predicted Probabilities | Variable | Variable | Offline |
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