title: Hillmaker: an open source occupancy analysis tool.
abstract: Managerial decision making problems in the healthcare industry often involve considerations of customer occupancy by time of day and day of week. We describe an occupancy analysis tool called Hillmaker which has been used in numerous healthcare operations studies. It is being released as a free and open source software project.
authors.affiliation: School of Business Administration, Department of Decision and Information Sciences, Oakland University, MI 48309, USA. isken@oakland.edu
authors.forename: Mark W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Isken
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003660:Decision Support Systems, Management; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000145:classification*; D007902:Length of Stay; D017146:Models, Organizational; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012984:Software