Abstract
This text summarizes the PhD thesis defended by the author in January 2006 under the supervision of Professor Erik Demeulemeester at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The thesis is written in English and is available from the author’s website (http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/jeroen.belien). In this research we propose a number of exact and heuristic algorithms for various scheduling problems encountered in hospitals. The emphasis lies on the design of new methodologies as well as on the applicability of the algorithms in real-life environments. The main contributions include a new decomposition approach for a particular class of staff scheduling problems, an extensive study of master surgery scheduling algorithms that aim at leveling the resultant bed occupancy and an innovative method for integrating nurse and surgery scheduling.
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