The IHTC 2024 (1)
Last year I decided to participate in an Optimization contest about scheduling patients to operation rooms called Integrated Healthcare Timetabling Competition 2024. I didn't do extremely well. This was not a surprise to me: I am aware of how competitive these competitions can be.
That doesn't mean that I did not try hard, though! And since I took it as an opportunity to try engines that I'm not very comfortable using, I actually learn lots.
In this post I will try to go back to the competition and convince myself that I did not do that bad summarize what I did. Hopefully it will be useful for others in the future. I put a (1) in the name because I could not fit everything I did in a single post, I will potentially revisit this topic in the future with my other approaches (see the end of the post for the other approaches / topics).