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Main Authors: Brandt, Tabea, Büsing, Christina, Engelhardt, Felix
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00221
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  • Patient-to-room assignment (PRA) is a scheduling problem in decision support for hospitals. It consists of assigning patients to rooms according to certain objectives, e.g., avoiding transfers and respecting single-room requests. This work presents combinatorial insights about the feasibility of PRA and about the assignment of patients to single rooms. We further compare different IP-formulations for PRA as well as the influence of different objectivs on the runtime. Based on these results, we develop a fast IP-based solution approach which obtains high quality solution. The applicability is verified through a computational study with instances derived from real-world data. Results indicate that large, real world instances can be solved to a high degree of optimality within (fractions of) seconds.