International Workshop on Scheduling in Healthcare Systems (SCHEALS'10)

International Workshop on Scheduling in Healthcare Systems (SCHEALS'10)

25-27 August 2010

IAMSR, Åbo Akademi University
Turku, Finland

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Abstract

Many Healthcare providers have suffered a crisis of poor quality and inefficiency with rapidly increasing costs. Healthcare delivery faces complex scheduling needs and stands to gain from advances in scheduling technology and understanding. The SCHEALS 2010 workshop will take place at Åbo Akademi University in the city of Turku, in conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Applied Operational Research (ICAOR'10). We invite you to join your colleagues for this international forum. Sharing of ideas, knowledge and experience is the primary goal of the workshop. The meeting would be ideal for young researchers to present their work, even at a preliminary stage, for constructive discussion and feedback.


Workshop Theme

The workshop will cover the general area of scheduling with particular emphasis being placed on healthcare applications, including, but not limited to:

* Automation
* Exact Methods
* Expert Systems
* Heuristics
* Machine Scheduling
* Meta-Heuristics
* Optimization
* Patient Scheduling
* Personnel Scheduling
* Queuing
* Rescheduling
* Shift Timetabling
* Simulation
* Uncertainty


Paper Submission

Researchers wishing to contribute to the conference are invited to submit manuscripts of not more than 12 pages either as full papers or extended abstracts. The working language of the conference is English. Authors are encouraged to prepare their manuscripts in LNCS style using the MS Word template provided by the Springer, please see Information for LNCS Authors.
Papers should be submitted online through the conference website submission system in MS Word 2003 format (.doc). All submissions will be reviewed by at least two referees, and successful papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings.


Special Issue

The authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration to post-workshop special issues of the Journal of Applied Operational Research (JAOR) or Lecture Notes in Management Science (LNMS).


Important Dates

15-Aug-2009 - Submission opens
15-Mar-2010 - Paper submission deadline
15-May-2010 - Notification of decisions
15-Jun-2010 - Registration deadline
30-Jun-2010 - Camera-ready deadline
25-Aug-2010 – Workshop starts


International Scientific Programme Committee

Ben Atkinson, London Metropolitan University, UK
Sigrid Knust, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Gilbert Laporte, HEC Montréal, Canada
Jesper Larsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Rym Hallah, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Margarida Moz, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Andrea Schaerf, University of Udine, Italy
Kaveh Sheibani, Tadbir Institute, Iran (Chair)


Registration

All workshop participants are expected to register for the ICAOR 2010 conference. The conference registration fee is €300 per delegate. This includes participation in all conference sessions, the proceedings, coffee breaks, lunches and the conference dinner.


Contact Details

General information on the conference email to:
icaor2010@gmail.com

Local Chair
Doc. Dr. Mikael Collan
Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research
Abo Akademi University
Joukahaisenkatu 3-5 A 4th floor
20520 Turku
Finland
Tel +358 (0)2 215 4033
Fax +358 (0)2 215 4809
mcollan@abo.fi

ICAOR/SCHEALS General Chair
Prof. Dr. Kaveh Sheibani
Tadbir Institute for Operational Research,
Systems Design and Financial Services Ltd.
122 Mahmudi 2ND Street
Tehran 19797-13673
Iran
Tel +98 (0)21 2271 7097
Fax +98 (0)21 2271 6816
tadbir@tadbirstm.org.ir


Please visit ICAOR website at http://www.tadbirstm.org.ir
or ICAOR 2010 conference website at http://iamsr.abo.fi/icaor2010