Appointment Scheduling Experiments

These notes provide detailed documentation of the functions and experiments used in our appointment scheduling research. Our approach is built on two key components:

• Evaluator Functions:
  A collection of functions responsible for evaluating the objective function for a given schedule. These functions compute essential performance metrics (e.g., expected waiting time, expected spillover) that help assess the quality of a schedule.

• Searcher Functions:
  A suite of functions designed to generate neighborhoods around a given solution and explore the surrounding search space. These functions use the evaluator functions to guide the search for improved schedules.

To Do

• Add a brief introduction to the project
• Evaluator Functions
  • Document and test the evaluator functions
  • Run experiments using the evaluator functions
• Searcher Functions
  • Document and test the search functions
  • Run experiments using the search functions