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A Methodology For Scheduling Operating Rooms Under Uncertainty, Marbelly Paola Davila
A Methodology For Scheduling Operating Rooms Under Uncertainty, Marbelly Paola Davila
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
An operating room (OR) is considered to be one of the most costly functional areas within hospitals as well as its major profit center. It is known that managing an OR department is a challenging task, which requires the integration of many actors (e.g., patients, surgeons, nurses, technicians) who may have conflicting interests and priorities.
Considering these aspects, this dissertation focuses on developing a simulation based methodology for scheduling operating rooms under uncertainty, which reflects the complexity, uncertainty and variability associated with surgery.
We split the process of scheduling ORs under uncertainty into two main components. First, we designed a …
Physical-Statistical Modeling And Optimization Of Cardiovascular Systems, Dongping Du
Physical-Statistical Modeling And Optimization Of Cardiovascular Systems, Dongping Du
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Heart disease remains the No.1 leading cause of death in U.S. and in the world. To improve cardiac care services, there is an urgent need of developing early diagnosis of heart diseases and optimal intervention strategies. As such, it calls upon a better understanding of the pathology of heart diseases.
Computer simulation and modeling have been widely applied to overcome many practical and ethical limitations in in-vivo, ex-vivo, and whole-animal experiments. Computer experiments provide physiologists and cardiologists an indispensable tool to characterize, model and analyze cardiac function both in healthy and in diseased heart. Most importantly, simulation modeling empowers the …