Team Twente's hybrid approach ranks third in Healthcare Timetabling Competition 2024
Team Twente's solution for the Integrated Healthcare Timetabling Competition 2024 combined mixed-integer programming, constraint programming, and simulated annealing in a three-phase decomposition approach, securing third place among finalists. The team introduced lower bounds on optimal solution values for benchmark instances and analyzed soft constraints and algorithm components. The work highlights open problems and future research directions.
Key facts
- Team Twente submitted to the Integrated Healthcare Timetabling Competition 2024
- Ranked third among finalists
- Approach combines mixed-integer programming, constraint programming, and simulated annealing
- Three-phase solution based on decomposition into subproblems
- First-time lower bounds on optimal solution values for benchmark instances
- Analysis of soft constraints and algorithm parts
- Open problems and future research directions identified
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Institutions
- Team Twente