Appointment scheduling with no-shows and overbooking

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 788-801

  Zacharias, Christos ^a   Pinedo, Michael ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

appointment scheduling; health care; no shows; overbooking; sequential scheduling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900510951     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/poms.12065     Document Type: Article

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