Cooperative strategies to reduce ambulance diversion

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1861-1874

  Hagtvedt, Reidar ^a   Ferguson, Mark ^b   Griffin, Paul ^c   Jones, Gregory Todd ^d   Keskinocak, Pinar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED SIMULATION MODELS; BIRTH-DEATH PROCESS; COOPERATIVE STRATEGY; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR; VOLUNTARY COOPERATION;

AMBULANCES; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; HOSPITALS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 77951521321     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2009.5429194     Document Type: Conference Paper

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