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Liu, C & Xiang, X. (2018). Optimal appointment scheduling with a stochastic server: Simulation based K-steps look-ahead selection method.International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations , 9(3), 397-408.
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Begen, M. A., Levi, R., & Queyranne, M. (2012). Technical note-a sampling-based approach to appointment scheduling. Operations Research, 60(3), 675-681.
Bendavid, I., & Golany, B. (2011). Setting gates for activities in the stochastic project scheduling problem through the cross entropy methodology. Annals of Operations Research, 189(1), 25-42.
Cayirli, T., & Veral, E. (2003). Outpatient scheduling in health care: a review of literature. Production and Operations Management, 12(4), 519-549.
Chakraborty, S., Muthuraman, K., & Lawley, M. (2010). Sequential clinical scheduling with patient no-shows and general service time distributions. IIE Transactions, 42(5), 354-366.
Denton, B., & Gupta, D. (2003). A sequential bounding approach for optimal appointment scheduling. IIE transactions, 35(11), 1003-1016.
De Mast, J., Kemper, B., Does, R., Mandjes, M., & Van der Bijl, H. (2011). Process improvement in healthcare: Overall resource efficiency. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 27(8), 1095-1106.
Gupta, D., & Denton, B. (2008). Appointment scheduling in health care: Challenges and opportunities. IIE transactions, 40(9), 800-819.
Kemper, B., Klaassen, C. A., & Mandjes, M. (2014). Optimized appointment scheduling. European Journal of Operational Research, 239(1), 243-255.
Kuiper, A., Kemper, B., & Mandjes, M. (2015). A Computational approach to optimized appointment scheduling. Queueing Systems, 79(1), 5-36
Mancilla, C., & Storer, R. (2012). A sample average approximation approach to stochastic appointment sequencing and scheduling. IIE Transactions, 44(8), 655-670.
Mak, H. Y., Rong, Y., & Zhang, J. (2014). Appointment scheduling with limited distributional information. Management Science, 61(2), 316-334.
Robinson, L. W., & Chen, R. R. (2003). Scheduling doctors’ appointments: optimal and empirically-based heuristic policies. IIE Transactions, 35(3), 295-307.
Vink, W., Kuiper, A., Kemper, B., & Bhulai, S. (2015). Optimal appointment scheduling in continuous time: The lag order approximation method. European Journal of Operational Research, 240(1), 213-219.
Wang, P. P. (1997). Optimally scheduling N customer arrival times for a single-server system. Computers & Operations Research, 24(8), 703-716.
Wang, P. P. (1999). Sequencing and scheduling N customers for a stochastic server. European Journal of Operational Research, 119(3), 729-738.
Weiss, E. N. (1990). Models for determining estimated start times and case orderings in hospital operating rooms. IIE transactions, 22(2), 143-150.