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Heuristics for Operating Theatre Scheduling: Following the Patient Issue number 28 Vol.13 n°1 - 2012 Vol.13 n°1 - 2012 Purchase this article : 5 € Abstract: The operating theatre defines the convergence point of many hospital activities. Elective patient scheduling in an operating theatre creates a difficult problem in terms of organizing the required human and material resources. This article investigates the scheduling problem of an operating theatre that comprises operating rooms, recovery beds and stretcher-bearers according to an open-scheduling strategy. The heuristics are of polynomial complexity and are compared on the one hand to previous works and on the other hand to a lower bound Authors: Nour El Houda SAADANI, Tunis Faculty of Sciences, LIP2, Tunisia Alain GUINET, DISP, INSA Lyon, France Keywords: Operating theatre open scheduling hybrid flow-shop precedence constraints heuristics