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...tasks are performedsby different hospital units for testing [14].sAgent based, patient-centred approach considers the dynamics of patient scheduling problem and thesmedical priorities of the patients =-=[15]-=-. A mutual exclusive resources coordination mechanism to GPGP approachsis added to achieve scheduling improvements compared to current scheduling without coordination. Resourcesconflicts are solved by...

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...n mechanism to buy the resource timeslot for the patient agent. When two tasks need to use the same resource at a time, highest priority will be given to the task which is arrived the hospital first. New coordination mechanism is introduced with GPGP approach for handling mutually exclusive resource relationship [14]. Dynamic changes of patient scheduling problem is solved by agent based, patient-centred approach [15]. This approach is used to avoid the resource conflicts. Medical Path Agent (MedPAge) shows the roles of the agent, dynamic interaction and the coordination object identification [16]. MedPAge project handles the complicated tasks through the market mechanism which is supported by software agent in the hospital. To improve the current scheduling situation, agent interaction protocol is used. The agents interact with each other. This mechanism maximizes the patient’s own utility. Distributed multi-agent based approach is implemented in the Medical Path Coordination (MedPaCo) for coordination of patient agents [17]. The aim of this coordination mechanism is to reduce the overall waiting time of the patients. This approach implements the patients and hospital resources as sof...