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General Paper

Comparison of a branch-and-bound heuristic, a newsvendor-based heuristic and periodic Bailey rules for outpatients appointment scheduling systems

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Pages 576-592 | Received 30 Oct 2014, Accepted 27 Aug 2015, Published online: 21 Dec 2017

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