Decentralized online scheduling of combination-appointments in hospitals

ICAPS 2008 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 372-379

  Vermeulen, Ivan ^a   Bohte, Sander ^a   Elkhuizen, Sylvia ^b   Bakker, Piet ^b   La Poutré, Han ^a,c  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; AGENTS; COMMERCE; HOSPITALS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED AUTHORITIES; HOSPITAL SETTINGS; LOCAL SCHEDULING; MULTI-AGENT APPROACHES; MULTI-AGENT SCHEDULING; ON-LINE PROBLEMS; ON-LINE SCHEDULING;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 58849090556     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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