Related Experiment Video
Updated: Feb 13, 2026

A Do-it-yourself System for Scheduled Feeding of Laboratory Rodents in Their Home Cage
Published on: June 6, 2025
Dynamic configuration scheduling problem for stochastic medical resources
Wen-Tso Huang1, Ping-Shun Chen2, John J Liu3
1Department of Logistics, School of Business, Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhuhai, No. 6, Jinfeng Rd., Tangjiawan, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China; Department of Business Administration, National Taipei University of Business, No. 321, Sec. 1, Jinan Rd., Taipei City 100, Taiwan, ROC.
Abstract:
Scheduling approaches for conventional surgery operating rooms in a hospital treat surgeons as bottleneck resources directly, but do not deal with stochastic medical resources, leading to an uneven human resource distribution in optimizing medical resource scheduling. Thus, this research focuses on the dynamic configuration scheduling problem for stochastic medical resources. In this paper, the surgical operating room is limited, and the arriving calls (i.e., number of patients) are dynamic. When a patient arrives, the nurse anesthetist and anesthesiologist are limited, but the medical service duration per patient is random. We introduce the drum-buffer-rope (DBR) scheduling approach to analyze which types of medical resources become bottleneck resources for optimizing operating room scheduling. After verifying the effectiveness of the DBR method in uncertain situations, the Monte Carlo simulation is demonstrated.
Related Concept Videos
Reinforcement Schedules
Once a behavior is learned,...
Controller Configurations
Control-system compensation involves various configurations, most commonly series or cascade compensation, in which the controller...
Electron Configurations
The relative energies of the subshells determine the order in which atomic orbitals are filled (1s, 2s, 2p, 3s, 3p,...
Electron Configuration of Multielectron Atoms
Short-distance Transport of Resources
Configurations of BJT
The common base configuration is noted for its high voltage gain, positioning it as an ideal choice for single-stage amplifier circuits, such as microphone pre-amplifiers. A notable...

