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Coordinated Hospital Patient Scheduling (1998)
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS98 |
| Citations: | 74 - 1 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Decker98coordinatedhospital,
author = {Keith Decker and Jinjiang Li},
title = {Coordinated Hospital Patient Scheduling},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS98},
year = {1998},
pages = {104--111}
}
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Abstract
Hospital Patient Scheduling is an inherently distributed problem because of the way real hospitals are organized. As medical procedures have become more complex, and their associated tests and treatments have become interrelated, the current ad hoc patient scheduling solutions have been observed to break down [15]. We propose a multi-agent solution using the Generalized Partial Global Planning (GPGP) approach that preserves the existing human organization and authority structures, while providing better system-level performance (increased hospital unit throughput and decreased patient stay time). To do this, we extend GPGP with a new coordination mechanism to handle mutually exclusive resource relationships. Like the other GPGP mechanisms, the new mechanism can be applied to any problem with the appropriate resource relationship. We evaluate the this new mechanism in the context of the hospital patient scheduling problem, and examine the effect of increasing interrelations between task...
Keyphrases
hospital patient new mechanism exclusive resource relationship hospital patient scheduling increased hospital unit throughput new coordination mechanism current ad hoc patient appropriate resource relationship medical procedure way real hospital system-level performance gpgp mechanism generalized partial global planning human organization multi-agent solution associated test decreased patient stay time authority structure
