Helmut Simonis
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Outpatient Wait List Management - Helmut worked together with ABTRAN to develop a tool for waitlist management for Outpatient services in multiple hospitals of the HSE. Wait times for appointments at hospitals are a severe problem in Ireland, with routine appointments for many specialities having wait times over 15 months. The OWL (Outpatient Wait List) tool helps hospitals to improve resource use, and identify strategic investment choices that maximise reductions in the wait times. This is done by finding the best balance between capacity reserved for urgent patients, and capacity used for routine procedures. It also allows for work to be spread more evenly between consultants, and between multiple hospitals in the same region, by allocating mobile patients to departments with spare capacity. The application was tested with data from two hospitals in the southern region of the HSE.
The team also developed a tool to visualise and analyze public waiting list data of the NTPF (National Treatment Purchase Fund), which provides a national overview of wait times across all HSE hospitals, as well as detailed analysis for all departments and all specialities across the country.
Publications
- Journal: Annals of Operations Research,Authors
Federico Toffano, Michele Garraffa, Yiqing Lin, Steven Prestwich, Helmut Simonis, Nic Wilson
Publication DetailsConference Name:Type:Date: 2021Refereed Original Article - Conference Name: CPAIOR 2020 ,Authors
Nicolas Beldiceanu, Maria-Isabel Restrepo, Helmut Simonis
Publication DetailsType:Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12296. Springer, Cham, Date: 2020Location: Austria,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding - AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Proceedings: 26th International Conference, CP 2020, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, September 7–11, 2020, Proceedings, Date: 2020Location: Belgium,Edited Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Authors
Ekaterina Arafailova, Nicolas Beldiceanu, Helmut Simonis
Publication DetailsConference Name:Type:Date: 2020Refereed Original Article - Journal: International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools,Authors
Mark Antunes, Vincent Armant, Ken Brown, Daniel Desmond, Guillaume Escamocher, Anne-Marie George, Diarmuid Grimes, Mike O’Keeffe, Yiqing Lin, Barry O'Sullivan, Cemalettin Ozturk, Luis Quesada, Mohamed Siala, Helmut Simonis, Nic Wilson
Publication DetailsConference Name:Type:Date: 2020Refereed Original Article - Conference Name: Winter Simulation Conference ,Authors
Gabriel Gonzalez-Castane, Helmut Simonis, Ken Brown, Yiqing Lin, Cemalettin Ozturk, Michele Garraffa, Mark Antunes
Publication DetailsType:Proceedings: Proceedings of the 2019 Winter Simulation Conference N. Mustafee, K.-H.G. Bae, S. Lazarova-Molnar, M. Rabe, C. Szabo, P. Haas, and Y.J. Son, eds., Date: 2019Location: United States of America,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding - Conference Name: EUROSIS ISC 2019 ,Authors
Gabriel Gonzalez-Castane, Helmut Simonis, Ken Brown, Cemalettin Ozturk, Yiqing Lin, Mark Antunes
Publication DetailsType:Date: 2019Location: Portugal,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding - Conference Name: International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence ,Authors
Mark Antunes, Vincent Armant, Ken Brown, Daniel Desmond, Guillaume Escamocher, Anne-Marie George, Diarmuid Grimes, Mike O'Keeffe, Yiqing Lin, Barry O'Sullivan, Cemalettin Ozturk†, Luis Quesada, Mohamed Siala, Helmut Simonis, Nic Wilson
Publication DetailsType:Proceedings: Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Date: 2018Location: Greece,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding - Authors
Ekaterina Arafailova, Nicolas Beldiceanu, Helmut Simonis
Publication DetailsConference Name:Type:Date: 2017Refereed Original Article - Authors
Christian Bessiere, Luc De Raedt, Tias Guns, Lars Kotthoff, Mirco Nanni, Siegfried Nijssen, Barry O'Sullivan, Anastasia Paparrizou, Dino Pedreschi, Helmut Simonis
Publication DetailsConference Name:Type:Date: 2017Refereed Original Article - Conference Name: CP 2017 ,Authors
Ekaterina Arafailova, Nicolas Beldiceanu, Helmut Simonis
Publication DetailsType:Proceedings: CP 2017, International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Date: 2017Location: Australia,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding - Conference Name: CP 2017 ,Authors
Ekaterina Arafailova, Nicolas Beldiceanu, Helmut Simonis
Publication DetailsType:Proceedings: CP 2017, International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Date: 2017Location: Australia,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding - Authors
Barry Hurley, Lars Kotthoff, Barry O'Sullivan, Helmut Simonis
Publication DetailsConference Name:Type:Date: 2016Book Chapter - Authors
Christian Bessiere, Luc De Raedt, Tias Guns, Lars Kotthoff, Mirco Nanni, Siegfried Nijssen, Barry O'Sullivan, Anastasia Paparrizou, Dino Pedreschi, Helmut Simonis
Publication DetailsConference Name:Type:Date: 2016Book Chapter - Authors
Barry Hurley, Barry O'Sullivan, Helmut Simonis
Publication DetailsConference Name:Type:Date: 2016Book Chapter - Conference Name: Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming ,Authors
Ekaterina Arafailova, Nicolas Beldiceanu, Mats Carlsson, Pierre Flener, Maria Andreina Francisco Rodriguez, Justin Pearson, Helmut Simonis
Publication DetailsType:Proceedings: Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - 22nd International Conference, CP 2016, Toulouse, France, September 5-9, 2016, Proceedings, Date: 2016Location: France,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding - Conference Name: Thirteenth International Conference on Integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Operations Research (OR) techniques in Constraint Programming ,Authors
Ekaterina Arafailova, Nicolas Beldiceanu, Remi Douence, Pierre Flener, Maria Andreina Francisco Rodriguez, Justin Pearson, Helmut Simonis
Publication DetailsType:Date: 2016Location: Canada,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding - Conference Name: Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-16) ,Authors
Alan Kinsella, Alan Smeaton, Barry Hurley, Barry O'Sullivan, Helmut Simonis
Publication DetailsType:Proceedings: Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-16), Date: 2016Location: United States of America,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding - Authors
Nicolas Beldiceanu, Mats Carlsson, Rémi Douence, Helmut Simonis
Publication DetailsConference Name:Type:Date: 2016Refereed Original Article - Conference Name: The IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence - ICTAI 2014 ,Authors
Deepak Mehta, Barry O'Sullivan, Cemalettin Ozturk, Luis Quesada, Helmut Simonis
Publication DetailsType:Proceedings: 2014 IEEE 26th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Date: 2014Location: Cyprus,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding - Journal: Elsevier Journal on Sustainable Computing, Informatics and Systems,Authors
Diarmuid Grimes, Georgiana Ifrim, Barry O'Sullivan, Helmut Simonis
Publication DetailsConference Name:Type:Date: 2014Refereed Original Article - Proceedings: 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing,Authors
Milan de Cauwer, Deepak Mehta, Barry O'Sullivan, Helmut Simonis, Hadrien Cambazard
Publication DetailsConference Name:Type:Date: 2014Location: United States of America,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding - AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Date: 2014Book
- Authors
Nicolas Beldiceanu, Pierre Flener, Jean-Noël Monette, Justin Pearson, Helmut Simonis
Publication DetailsConference Name:Type:Date: 2014Refereed Original Article - Authors
Hadrien Cambazard, Barry O'Sullivan, Helmut Simonis
Publication DetailsConference Name:Type:Date: 2014Refereed Original Article - Conference Name: 6th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing ,AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Proceedings: 6th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, Date: 2013Location: Germany,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Conference Name: Principles and Practices of Constraint Programming ,Authors
Hadrien Cambazard, Deepak Mehta, Barry O'Sullivan, Helmut Simonis
Publication DetailsType:Proceedings: 19th International Conference, CP 2013, Uppsala, Sweden, September 16-20, 2013. Proceedings, Date: 2013Location: Sweden,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding - Conference Name: Principles and Practices of Constraint Programming 2013 ,Authors
Nicolas Beldiceanu, Georgiana Ifrim, Arnaud Lenoir, Helmut Simonis
Publication DetailsType:Proceedings: 19th International Conference, CP 2013, Uppsala, Sweden, September 16-20, 2013. Proceedings, Date: 2013Location: Sweden,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding - Conference Name: Proceedings of 2nd Central European Symposium on Building Physics ,Authors
C. de Torre, A. Macia, M.A. Garcia-Fuentes, C. Valmaseda, Helmut Simonis
Publication DetailsType:Proceedings: Proceedings of 2nd Central European Symposium on Building Physics, Date: 2013Location: Austria,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding - Conference Name: Proceedings of 2nd Central European Symposium on Building Physics ,Authors
D Browne, R. Foley, M. Schuss, Helmut Simonis, C. de Torre, D. Willis
Publication DetailsType:Proceedings: Proceedings of 2nd Central European Symposium on Building Physics, Date: 2013Location: Austria,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding - Conference Name: IAAI 2013 ,Authors
Hadrien Cambazard, Barry O'Sullivan, Helmut Simonis
Publication DetailsType:Proceedings: AAAI Publications, Twenty-Fifth IAAI Conference, Date: 2013Location: United States of America,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding - Conference Name: Symposium on Combinatorial Search ,Authors
Naina Razakarison, Mats Carlsson, Nicolas Beldiceanu, Helmut Simonis
Publication DetailsType:Proceedings: AAAI Publications, Sixth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search, Date: 2013Location: United States of America,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding
Presentations
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Helmut SimonisNon-Insight Researchers: Simon de Givry and Thomas Schiex and Andreas SchuttEvent: ModRef 2020, Venue: CP 2020Date: 05/09/2020Event Type: WorkshopPresentation Type: Paper
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Helmut Simonis, Barry O'SullivanOrganising Body: Euro, Event: Euro 2019, Venue: UCDDate: 24/06/2019Event Type: ConferencePresentation Type: Oral Presentation
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Helmut SimonisNon-Insight Researchers: Ekaterina Arafailova, Nicolas BeldiceanuOrganising Body: PGMO, Event: PGMO Days 2018, Venue: Ecole PolytechniquesDate: 21/11/2018Event Type: ConferencePresentation Type: Plenary talk
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Helmut SimonisOrganising Body: Decision Managment Community, Event: Decision Camp 2018, Venue: University of LuxembourgDate: 19/09/2018Event Type: ConferencePresentation Type: Plenary talk
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Helmut SimonisNon-Insight Researchers: Nicolas Beldiceanu, Ekaterina Arafailova, Mats Carlsson, Remi Douence, Maria Andreina Francisco RodriguezOrganising Body: ACP, Event: ModRef 2018, Venue: CP 2018, LilleDate: 27/08/2018Event Type: WorkshopPresentation Type: Plenary talk
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Helmut SimonisNon-Insight Researchers: Ekaterina Arafailova, Nicolas BeldiceanuOrganising Body: ACP, Event: PTHG-18: The Second Workshop on Progress Towards the Holy Grail, Venue: CP 2018, LilleDate: 27/08/2018Event Type: WorkshopPresentation Type: Plenary talk
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Helmut SimonisEvent: ModRef 2018, Venue: CP 2018, LilleDate: 27/08/2018Event Type: WorkshopPresentation Type: Invited speaker
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Helmut SimonisNon-Insight Researchers: Ekaterina Arafailova, Nicolas BeldiceanuOrganising Body: University Leuven, Computer Science Department, Venue: LeuvenDate: 10/07/2018Event Type: Invited SeminarPresentation Type: Invited speaker
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Helmut SimonisNon-Insight Researchers: Ekaterina Arafailova, Nicolas BeldiceanuOrganising Body: ACP, Event: Workshop on Progress Towards the Holy Grail, CP 2017, Venue: Melbourne Convention CentreDate: 28/08/2017Event Type: WorkshopPresentation Type: Paper
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Helmut SimonisOrganising Body: ACP, Event: Workshop on Progress Towards the Holy Grail, CP 2017, Venue: Melbourne Convention CentreDate: 28/08/2017Event Type: WorkshopPresentation Type: Invited speaker
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Helmut Simonis, Luis QuesadaNon-Insight Researchers: Joshua M Duley, Róisín Hill, Jean Abi Rizk, Ali SheikhiOrganising Body: MACSI, Event: 128th European Study Group with Industry, Venue: University of LimerickDate: 15/08/2017Event Type: WorkshopPresentation Type: Paper
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Helmut Simonis, Mike O'KeeffeOrganising Body: Dept of An Taoiseach, Event: Data Summit, Venue: Convention Centre, DublinDate: 15/06/2017Event Type: ConferencePresentation Type: Poster
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Helmut SimonisOrganising Body: 22nd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Event: CP 2016 Doctoral Programme, Date: 05/09/2016Event Type: Invited SeminarPresentation Type: Invited speaker
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Helmut SimonisNon-Insight Researchers: Nicolas Beldiceanu, Remi Douence, Mats CarlssonOrganising Body: ACP, Event: CP 2015, Venue: CorkDate: 04/09/2015Event Type: ConferencePresentation Type: Plenary talk
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Alan Smeaton, Barry O'Sullivan, Helmut SimonisNon-Insight Researchers: Alan KInsellaOrganising Body: ACP, Event: Industrial Day at CP 2015, Venue: CorkDate: 03/09/2015Event Type: ConferencePresentation Type: Poster
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Georgiana Ifrim, Helmut SimonisNon-Insight Researchers: Nicolas Beldiceanu, Arnaud Lenoir, Jean-Yves LucasOrganising Body: ACP, Event: Industrial Day at CP 2015, Venue: CorkDate: 03/09/2015Event Type: ConferencePresentation Type: Poster
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Helmut Simonis, Mike O'KeeffeNon-Insight Researchers: Aneel RahimOrganising Body: ACP, Event: Industrial Day at CP 2015, Venue: CorkDate: 03/09/2015Event Type: ConferencePresentation Type: Poster
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Barry O'Sullivan, Helmut SimonisNon-Insight Researchers: Hadrien CambazardOrganising Body: ACP, Event: Industrial Day at CP 2015, Venue: CorkDate: 03/09/2015Event Type: ConferencePresentation Type: Poster
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Barry O'Sullivan, Cemalettin Ozturk, Deepak Mehta, Helmut Simonis, Luis QuesadaOrganising Body: ACP, Event: Industrial Day at CP 2015, Venue: CorkDate: 03/09/2015Event Type: ConferencePresentation Type: Poster
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Barry O'Sullivan, Helmut SimonisOrganising Body: ACP, Event: Industrial Day at CP 2015, Venue: CorkDate: 03/09/2015Event Type: ConferencePresentation Type: Poster
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Barry O'Sullivan, Helmut SimonisOrganising Body: ACP, Event: Industrial Day at CP 2015, Venue: CorkDate: 03/09/2015Event Type: ConferencePresentation Type: Poster
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Barry O'Sullivan, Helmut SimonisNon-Insight Researchers: Hadrien CambazardOrganising Body: ACP, Event: Industrial Day at CP 2015, Venue: CorkDate: 03/09/2015Event Type: ConferencePresentation Type: Poster
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Helmut SimonisOrganising Body: ACP, Event: Sixth International Workshop on Bin Packing and Placement Constraints BPPC'15, Venue: CorkDate: 31/08/2015Event Type: WorkshopPresentation Type: Invited speaker
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Helmut SimonisOrganising Body: ACP, Event: Workshop on Teaching Constraint Programming, Venue: CorkDate: 31/08/2015Event Type: WorkshopPresentation Type: Plenary talk
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Helmut SimonisEvent: 24th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, Venue: NancyDate: 15/09/2014Event Type: ConferencePresentation Type: Invited speaker
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Helmut Simonis, Georgiana IfrimOrganising Body: CPAIOR 2014, Event: Master class in Optimization and Machine Learning/Data Mining at CPAIOR 2014, Venue: Imperial Hotel, CorkDate: 20/05/2014Event Type: Invited SeminarPresentation Type: Invited speaker
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Deepak Mehta, Barry O'Sullivan, Cemalettin Ozturk, Luis Quesada, Helmut SimonisOrganising Body: INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics, Event: Workshop on Bin Packing and Placement Constraints at The 11th International Conference on Integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Operations Research (OR) techniques in Constraint Programming, Venue: Imperial Hotel - CorkDate: 19/05/2014Event Type: WorkshopPresentation Type: Paper
Conferences/Workshops/Seminars
- DetailsInsight ParticipantHelmut SimonisSponsor OrganisationACP, LocationBelgiumStart Date07/09/2020 to End Date11/09/2020
- DetailsInsight ParticipantHelmut SimonisSponsor OrganisationACP, LocationUnited StatesStart Date30/09/2019 to End Date03/10/2019
- DetailsInsight ParticipantHelmut SimonisSponsor OrganisationAAAI, LocationUnited StatesStart Date27/01/2019 to End Date03/02/2019
- DetailsInsight ParticipantHelmut SimonisSponsor OrganisationACP, LocationFranceStart Date05/09/2016 to End Date09/09/2016
- DetailsInsight ParticipantBarry Hurley, Barry O'Sullivan, Helmut SimonisSponsor OrganisationACP, LocationIrelandStart Date20/06/2016 to End Date24/06/2016
- DetailsInsight ParticipantBarry O'Sullivan, Helmut SimonisSponsor OrganisationAAAI, LocationUnited StatesStart Date12/02/2016 to End Date17/02/2016
- DetailsInsight ParticipantHelmut SimonisNon-Insight ParticipantJustin Pearson, Christopher JeffersonSponsor OrganisationACP, LocationIrelandStart Date05/09/2015 to End Date05/09/2015
- DetailsInsight ParticipantHelmut SimonisSponsor OrganisationAAAI, LocationUnited StatesStart Date25/01/2015 to End Date30/01/2015
- DetailsInsight ParticipantHelmut SimonisSponsor OrganisationACP, LocationFranceStart Date08/09/2014 to End Date12/09/2014
- DetailsInsight ParticipantHelmut SimonisSponsor OrganisationCPAIOR Conference Series, LocationIrelandStart Date19/05/2014 to End Date23/05/2014