Saif Benjaafar , Oualid Jouini , Benjamin Legros , Bingnan Lu
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Pooled testing for infectious diseases has a rich history. However, the focus of much of the academic literature has been on maximizing testing throughput. While this approach maximizes the efficiency of the testing facility, it may not minimize the delay in obtaining test results. In this paper, we provide a procedure, based on a queueing model, for choosing sample batch sizes that minimize expected delay. We show that not doing so, and relying on throughput maximization, may lead to excessive delays.
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Operations Research Letters is committed to the rapid review and fast publication of short articles on all aspects of operations research and analytics. Apart from a limitation to eight journal pages, quality, originality, relevance and clarity are the only criteria for selecting the papers to be published. ORL covers the broad field of optimization, stochastic models and game theory. Specific areas of interest include networks, routing, location, queueing, scheduling, inventory, reliability, and financial engineering. We wish to explore interfaces with other fields such as life sciences and health care, artificial intelligence and machine learning, energy distribution, and computational social sciences and humanities. Our traditional strength is in methodology, including theory, modelling, algorithms and computational studies. We also welcome novel applications and concise literature reviews.