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Erik Demeulemeester

Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)

Leuven, B-3000

Belgium

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Scholarly Papers (43)

1.

Workforce Planning Incorporating Skills: State of the Art

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 16 May 2014
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel), Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
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skills, workforce stang and scheduling, literature review

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Literature Review on Integrated Hospital Scheduling Problems

KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business, KBI_1627
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 22 Nov 2016
Joren Marynissen and Erik Demeulemeester
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 796 (77,802)
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OR in health services, Integrated scheduling, Combination appointments, Appointment series, Integrated healthcare

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Assessing the Performance of Hospital Capacity Planning Through Simulation Analysis

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 29 Jan 2011
Guoxuan Ma and Erik Demeulemeester
Catholic University of Leuven (KUL). Faculty of business and Economics (FBE) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 347 (214,990)
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hospital capacity planning, patient misplacement, bed occupancy, variability, discrete-event simulation, sensitivity analysis

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Evaluating the Capacity of Clinical Pathways through Discrete-Event Simulation

KU Leuven Department of Decision Sciences and Information Management Working Paper No. KBI 0712
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 14 Feb 2008
Brecht Cardoen and Erik Demeulemeester
Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 301 (252,268)
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Capacity management, Case studies, Discrete-event simulation, Health care operations, Processes, Structure, Simulation, Model, Performance, Indicators, Sensitivity, Studies, Hospitals, Belgium, Order

5.

Scheduling Operating Rooms: Achievements, Challenges and Pitfalls

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 29 Mar 2016
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), KU Leuven and KU Leuven
Downloads 261 (294,135)
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Health care management, Surgery scheduling, Operating room planning, Review

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The Proactive and Reactive Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 28 Apr 2016
Morteza Davari and Erik Demeulemeester
KU Leuven - Department of Applied Economics and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 259 (295,303)
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RCPSP, Stochastic activity durations, Proactive and reactive scheduling, Markov decision process

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Proactive Resource Allocation Heuristics for Robust Project Scheduling

KU Leuven Working Paper No. KBI 0608
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 16 Dec 2005
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB)
Downloads 256 (297,664)
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Towards a More Competitive PPP Procurement Market: A Game-Theoretical Analysis

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 10 Jul 2014
Dennis De Clerck and Erik Demeulemeester
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 251 (303,770)
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public-private partnership procurement, project management, bidding, game theory, simulation

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Integrating Nurse and Surgery Scheduling

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 12 Jan 2006
Jeroen Belien and Erik Demeulemeester
Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 243 (313,926)
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Nurse scheduling, Surgery scheduling, Column generation, Integer programming

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Proactive and Reactive Strategies for Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling with Uncertain Resource Availabilities

KU Leuven Working Paper No. KBI 0606
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 12 Dec 2006
Olivier Lambrechts, Erik Demeulemeester and Willy Herroelen
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 232 (328,850)
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Trade-Offs in Operating Room Planning for Electives and Emergencies: A Review

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 23 Jan 2015
Carla Van Riet and Erik Demeulemeester
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 214 (356,192)
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A New Approach for Quantitative Risk Analysis

KBI Working Paper No. 1029
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 05 Dec 2010
Stefan Creemers, Erik Demeulemeester and Stijn Van de Vonder
UCLouvain, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB)
Downloads 207 (368,123)
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Building Cyclic Master Surgery Schedules with Leveled Resulting Bed Occupancy: A Case Study

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 16 Dec 2005
Jeroen Belien, Erik Demeulemeester and Brecht Cardoen
Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 197 (386,064)
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Operating room scheduling, Case study, Mixed integer programming, Quadratic programming, Simulated annealing

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Improving Workforce Scheduling of Aircraft Line Maintenance at Sabena Technics

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 03 Jan 2012
Jeroen Belien, Brecht Cardoen and Erik Demeulemeester
Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 196 (387,924)

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workforce staffing, scheduling, optimization, visualization, aircraft maintenance

15.

Exact and Inexact Scheduling Algorithms for Multiple Earth Observation Satellites Under Uncertainties of Clouds

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 23 Jul 2015
Jianjiang Wang, Erik Demeulemeester, Dishan Qiu and Jin Liu
National University of Defense Technology, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), National University of Defense Technology and National University of Defense Technology
Downloads 192 (395,523)
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earth observation satellites, uncertainties of clouds, model decomposition, enumeration, dynamic programming, heuristic

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A Multilevel Integrative Approach to Hospital Case Mix and Capacity Planning

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 02 Feb 2012
Guoxuan Ma and Erik Demeulemeester
Catholic University of Leuven (KUL). Faculty of business and Economics (FBE) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 186 (409,459)
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health care, case mix and capacity planning, master surgery schedule, multilevel, resource efficiency, service level

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Exact and Suboptimal Reactive Strategies for Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling with Uncertain Resource Availabilities

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 19 Feb 2008
Olivier Lambrechts, Erik Demeulemeester and Willy Herroelen
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 185 (413,774)

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Schedule stability, Stability, Algorithms, Heuristic, Uncertainty, Project scheduling, Scheduling, Performance, Strategy, Order, Project management, Management, Time

18.

Exact and Heuristic Reactive Planning Procedures for Multimode Resource-Constrained Projects

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 23 Oct 2008
Filip Deblaere, Erik Demeulemeester and Willy Herroelen
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 180 (422,345)
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Scheduling Surgical Cases in a Day-Care Environment: A Branch-and-Price Approach

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 01 Feb 2008
Brecht Cardoen, Erik Demeulemeester and Jeroen Belien
Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 170 (444,808)
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Branch-and-price, Column generation, Health care operations, Scheduling

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Heuristic Procedures for Generating Stable Project Baseline Schedules

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 12 Jan 2006
Stijn Van de Vonder, Erik Demeulemeester and Willy Herroelen
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 164 (456,852)
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Heuristic Procedures for Reactive Project Scheduling

K.U. Leuven KBI Working Paper No. 0605
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 12 Jun 2006
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), University of Navarra - Dpto. de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 156 (477,517)
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Heuristic, Project scheduling,Reactive scheduling Research, Scheduling, Stability, Uncertainty

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A Purely Proactive Scheduling Procedure for the Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem with Stochastic Activity Durations

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 10 Jul 2014
Patricio Lamas Vilches and Erik Demeulemeester
KU Leuven - Department of Applied Economics and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 154 (482,968)
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Proactive RCPSP, Robust RCPSP, Chance-constrained programming, SAA

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A Two-Stage Mixed Integer Programming Approach for Optimizing the Skill Mix and Training Schedules for Aircraft Maintenance

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 01 Dec 2015
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 153 (485,678)
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Aircraft maintenance, skills, training, mixed integer programming

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Visualizing the Demand for Various Resources as a Function of the Master Surgery Schedule: A Case Study

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 15 Dec 2005
Jeroen Belien, Erik Demeulemeester and Brecht Cardoen
Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 149 (497,070)
Citation 1

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Operating room scheduling, Visualization, Resource management, Case study

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A Novel Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for the Chance-Constrained RCPSP

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 21 Sep 2016
Morteza Davari and Erik Demeulemeester
KU Leuven - Department of Applied Economics and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 135 (540,814)
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chance-constrained problem, branch-and-bound, CC-RCPSP

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Timeslack-Based Techniques for Generating Robust Project Schedules Subject to Resource Uncertainty

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 15 Feb 2008
Olivier Lambrechts, Erik Demeulemeester and Willy Herroelen
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 118 (608,822)
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Uncertainty, Project scheduling, Scheduling, Research, Impact, Information, Time, Order, IT, Strategy, Heuristic

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Generating Proactive Execution Policies for Resource-Constrained Projects with Uncertain Activity Durations

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 16 Apr 2010
Filip Deblaere, Erik Demeulemeester and Willy Herroelen
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 116 (613,149)
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Railway Scheduling Reduces the Expected Project Makespan

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven KBI 1004
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 12 Feb 2010
Wendi Tian and Erik Demeulemeester
Catholic University of Leuven (KUL). Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 115 (617,542)
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Railway scheduling, Roadrunner scheduling, Feeding buffer, Priority list, Resource availability

29.

Lean Beyond Company Borders: Costs or Benefits?

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 23 Jan 2015
Carla Van Riet, Dennis De Clerck and Erik Demeulemeester
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 113 (626,371)
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Supply chain logistics, lean transportation, returnable packaging, assembly industry, case study

30.

A Tabu Search Heuristic for Building Aircraft Maintenance Personnel Rosters

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 Jul 2014
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 111 (635,507)

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Tabu Search, staffing, scheduling, aircraft line maintenance, strategic oscillation, pattern creation

31.

A Decision Support System for Surgery Sequencing at UZ Leuven's Day-Care Department

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 Mar 2011
Brecht Cardoen and Erik Demeulemeester
Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 111 (635,507)

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Decision support system, optimization, visualization, health care application

32.

Due Time Driven Surgery Scheduling

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 10 Oct 2015
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), KU Leuven and KU Leuven
Downloads 110 (640,165)
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Operating room planning, Patient scheduling, Due time

33.

A Sequential Procurement Model for a PPP Project Pipeline

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 23 Jan 2015
Dennis De Clerck and Erik Demeulemeester
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 107 (654,668)

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public-private partnerships, sequential procurement auction, Markov perfect equilibrium, best response heuristic

34.

Experience Pays Heavily in a PPP Environment, but Government Has the Power to Increase Competition

KU Leuven - Faculty of Economics and Business Working Paper No. KBI _1308
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 04 Jun 2013
Dennis De Clerck and Erik Demeulemeester
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 104 (669,616)

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Exact Algorithms for Single-Machine Scheduling with Time Windows and Precedence Constraints

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 21 Jan 2014
Morteza Davari, Erik Demeulemeester, R. Leus and Fabrice Nobibon Talla
KU Leuven - Department of Applied Economics, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and FedEx Express Europe
Downloads 100 (689,572)
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single-machine scheduling, branch and bound, mixed-integer programming

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A Pure Proactive Scheduling Algorithm for Multiple Earth Observation Satellites Under Uncertainties of Clouds

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 13 Sep 2014
Jianjiang Wang, Erik Demeulemeester and Dishan Qiu
National University of Defense Technology, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and National University of Defense Technology
Downloads 93 (725,554)
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earth observation satellites, uncertainties of clouds, proactive scheduling, chance constraint programming, sample approximation, branch and cut

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A Model Enhancement Heuristic for Building Robust Aircraft Maintenance Personnel Rosters with Stochastic Constraints

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 06 Jun 2014
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel), Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 84 (783,685)
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model enhancement, aircraft maintenance, stochastic optimization

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Proactive Scheduling Algorithms for Multiple Earth Observation Satellites Under Uncertainties of Clouds

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 23 Jul 2015
Jianjiang Wang, Erik Demeulemeester and Dishan Qiu
National University of Defense Technology, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and National University of Defense Technology
Downloads 82 (790,029)
Citation 1

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earth observation satellites, uncertainties of clouds, expectation model, chance constraint programming, branch-and-price, sample approximation, column generation heuristic

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An Ex Ante Bidding Model to Assess the Incentive Creation Capability of a Public-Private Partnership Pipeline

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Nov 2014
Dennis De Clerck and Erik Demeulemeester
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 76 (830,555)

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public-private partnership procurement, multi-project bidding, ex ante strategy, simulation

40.

The Proactive and Reactive Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem: The Crucial Role of Buffer-Based Reactions

KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business, KBI_1707
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 29 May 2017
Morteza Davari and Erik Demeulemeester
KU Leuven - Department of Applied Economics and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 73 (852,604)
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On the Interaction between Railway Scheduling and Resource Flow Networks

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 23 Nov 2010
Wendi Tian and Erik Demeulemeester
Catholic University of Leuven (KUL). Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 71 (867,774)
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railway scheduling, roadrunner scheduling, resource flow networks, DTRTP

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Optimizing the Workforce Schedule and Collection Routes for Glass Containers

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 01 Dec 2015
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), European University College, Brussels, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel). Center for Modelling and Simulation and Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel)
Downloads 61 (961,006)

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Model enhancement, waste collection, shift scheduling

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Solving the Case Mix Problem Optimally by Using Branch-and-Price Algorithms

Posted: 19 May 2011
Guoxuan Ma, Jeroen Belien, Erik Demeulemeester and Lu Wang
Catholic University of Leuven (KUL). Faculty of business and Economics (FBE), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE)

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patient case mix, capacity planning, integer linear programming, branch-and-price approach