CALL FOR PAPERS 4th International Workshop on Scheduling in Healthcare Systems (SCHEALS'12) 25-27 July 2012 Grand Mercure Fortune Bangkok, Thailand www.tadbir.ca ________________________________________ 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 2012 workshop will take place at Grand Mercure Fortune in the city of Bangkok, Thailand in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Applied Operational Research (ICAOR'12). We invite you to join your colleagues for this 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 covers the general area of scheduling with particular emphasis on healthcare applications, including, but not limited to: - Automation - Expert Systems - Machine Scheduling - Patient Scheduling - Personnel Scheduling - Rescheduling and Shift Timetabling - Queuing, Simulation and Uncertainty Paper Submission Researchers wishing to contribute to the conference are invited to submit manuscripts of not more than 6 pages either as full papers or extended abstracts. Manuscripts should be submitted online through the conference website submission system in MS Word. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two referees, and successful papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by Lecture Notes in Management Science (LNMS). Special Issues The authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration to the Journal of Applied Operational Research (JAOR). Important Dates 15-Sep-2011 - Submission opens 30-Mar-2012 - Paper submission deadline 30-Apr-2012 - Notification of decisions 15-May-2012 - Registration deadline 30-May-2012 - Camera-ready deadline 25-Jul-2012 - Conference starts Scientific Programme Committee Greet Vanden Berghe, KAHO Sint-Lieven, Belgium Diwakar Gupta, University of Minnesota, USA Patrick Hirsch, Univ of Natural Rescs & Life Sci, Austria (Co-Chair) Sigrid Knust, Osnabrück University, Germany Gilbert Laporte, HEC Montréal, Canada Jesper Larsen, Tech University of Denmark, Denmark Rym MHallah, Kuwait University, Kuwait Ines Marques, Lusophone University of Hum & Tech, Portugal Margarida Moz, Tech University of Lisbon, Portugal (Chair) Tomas Eric Nordlander, SINTEF, Norway Andrea Schaerf, University of Udine, Italy Kaveh Sheibani, Tadbir OR Group Ltd, Canada Programme Chairs SCHEALS’12 PC Chair Margarida Moz, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal SCHEALS General Chair Kaveh Sheibani, Tadbir OR Group Ltd, Canada Contacts icaor@tadbir.ca