Chemotherapy Production Scheduling with Skill-Learning

This paper presents on original model for the scheduling of chemotherapy production in hospitals. The purpose is to investigate how service expectations implied by due dates and learning opportunities for technicians offered by idle times can be combined when computing a production schedule. An optimization module was developed based on a tabu search heuristic for the scheduling part and included in a simulation which contains a Learn-Forget Curve Model for the technician competences to evolve.