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In today's world, healthcare is the most important factor affecting human life. Due to heavy work load it is not possible for personal healthcare. The proposed system acts as a preventive measure for determining whether a person is fit or…

This paper studies the use of highly stratified designs for the efficient estimation of a large class of treatment effect parameters that arise in the analysis of experiments. By a "highly stratified" design, we mean experiments in which…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-03-30 Yuehao Bai , Jizhou Liu , Azeem M. Shaikh , Max Tabord-Meehan

Calibration in recommender systems is an important performance criterion that ensures consistency between the distribution of user preference categories and that of recommendations generated by the system. Standard methods for mitigating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Kun Lin , Masoud Mansoury , Farzad Eskandanian , Milad Sabouri , Bamshad Mobasher

Dynamic facility location problems aim at placing one or more valuable resources over a planning horizon to meet customer demand. Existing literature commonly assumes that customer demand quantities are defined independently for each time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Warley Almeida Silva , Margarida Carvalho , Sanjay Dominik Jena

The recently introduced online Minimum Peak Appointment Scheduling (MPAS) problem is a variant of the online bin-packing problem that allows for deferred decision making. Specifically, it allows for the problem to be split into an online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Devin Smedira , David B. Shmoys

Medicine is moving from a curative discipline to a preventative discipline relying on personalised and precise treatment plans. The complex and multi level pathophysiological patterns of most diseases require a systemic medicine approach…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Pietro Barbiero , Pietro Lió

Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) play a crucial role in transportation and service tasks at hospitals, contributing to enhanced efficiency and meeting medical demands. This paper investigates the optimization problem of scheduling strategies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Lulu Cheng , Ning Zhao , Kan Wu , Zhibin Chen

The paper investigates the escalating concerns surrounding the surge in diabetes cases, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the subsequent strain on medical resources. The research aims to construct a predictive model quantifying…

Applications · Statistics 2025-02-04 Jorden Lam , Kunpeng Xu

Objective: A patient medical insurance coverage plays an essential role in determining the post-acute care (PAC) discharge disposition. The prior health insurance authorization process postpones the PAC discharge disposition, increases the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Avishek Choudhury

Session-based recommendation aims to generate recommendations for the next item of users' interest based on a given session. In this manuscript, we develop prospective preference enhanced mixed attentive model (P2MAM) to generate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Bo Peng , Chang-Yu Tai , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Xia Ning

This paper aims to address the integrated routing and appointment scheduling (RAS) problem for a single service provider. The RAS problem is an operational challenge faced by operators that provide services requiring home attendance, such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-06 René Bekker , Bharti Bharti , Leon Lan , Michel Mandjes

Due to the wider availability of modern electronic health records, patient care data is often being stored in the form of time-series. Clustering such time-series data is crucial for patient phenotyping, anticipating patients' prognoses by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 Changhee Lee , Mihaela van der Schaar

We develop a conservative continuous-time stochastic control framework for treatment optimization from irregularly sampled patient trajectories. The unknown patient dynamics are modeled as a controlled stochastic differential equation with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Nora Schneider , Georg Manten , Niki Kilbertus

The recent increase in morbidity is primarily due to chronic diseases including Diabetes, Heart disease, Lung cancer, and brain tumours. The results for patients can be improved, and the financial burden on the healthcare system can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Sri Varsha Mulakala , G. Neeharika , P. Vinay Kumar , A. Bhargava Kiran

Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) is critical in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs), where diagnostic uncertainty often drives broad-spectrum antibiotic use, increasing antimicrobial resistance and potential long-term harms. Machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Niklas Raehse , Luregn J. Schlapbach , Daphné Chopard

The automatic, sensor-based assessment of challenging behavior of persons with dementia is an important task to support the selection of interventions. However, predicting behaviors like apathy and agitation is challenging due to the large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Maximilian Popko , Sebastian Bader , Stefan Lüdtke , Thomas Kirste

Sustained treatment strategies are common in many domains, particularly in medicine, where many treatment are delivered repeatedly over time. The effects of adherence to a treatment strategy throughout follow-up are often more relevant to…

We address the personalized policy learning problem using longitudinal mobile health application usage data. Personalized policy represents a paradigm shift from developing a single policy that may prescribe personalized decisions by…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-13 Xinyu Hu , Min Qian , Bin Cheng , Ying Kuen Cheung

We consider real-time timely tracking of infection status (e.g., covid-19) of individuals in a population. In this work, a health care provider wants to detect infected people as well as people who have recovered from the disease as quickly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Melih Bastopcu , Sennur Ulukus

This paper develops a data-driven, constraint-based optimization framework for a complex industrial job shop scheduling problem variant in pharmaceutical manufacturing. The formulation captures fixed routings and designated machines,…