Resource Allocation and Outpatient Appointment Scheduling Using Simulation Optimization

Table 7

Algorithm parameters.

Description	Notation	Value
Number of simulation replications per schedule	n	30
Maximum % estimation error in Z (for determining n)	ε	10%
Level of confidence in estimating Z (for determining n)	1−α	95%
Level of significance in testing for an improved schedule	γ	0.1
Number of new schedules created from an incumbent schedule	itermax	5
Initial pool size of patients for rescheduling	p0	10
Fixed increment of pool size	pstep_size	2
Initial maximum pool size	pmax_size	12
Maximum time limit for algorithm (CPU seconds)	tlim	7200