Building on the success of the earlier timetabling competitions, the Integrated Healthcare Timetabling Competition 2024 intends to stimulate research focusing on the challenges of integrated optimization problems.

The considered optimization problem integrates three critical problems in healthcare: surgical case planning, patient admission scheduling and nurse-to-room assignment.

For more details on the competition, please visit https://ihtc2024.github.io/.

Prizes

The top three will receive cash prizes and will be offered one free registration to EURO 2025 conference in Leeds, UK, that will include a special track on the competition. In detail:

First prize: €1100

Second prize: €700

Third prize: €400

Additional €200 for the best participant that uses only open-source software (i.e., no commercial software).

Important Dates

Competition start: September 1, 2024

Solutions submission: March 1, 2025

Finalists announcement: April 1, 2025

Winners announcement: May 1, 2025

Award ceremony: June 22-25, 2025 (at EURO 2025)

Organizing committee

Sara Ceschia, Roberto Maria Rosati, Andrea Schaerf, Eugenia Zanazzo

University of Udine, Italy

Pieter Smet, Greet Vanden Berghe

KU Leuven, Belgium

Contact

web: https://ihtc2024.github.io/

email: ihtc2024@uniud.it  (if you want to receive timely updates about the competition, please write us to be included in the designated mailing list)