Agent-based outpatient scheduling for diagnostic services

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1851-1856

  Godin, Patrice ^a   Wang, Chun ^a  

^a Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Diagnostic service scheduling; Dynamic outpatient scheduling; Iterative bidding; Multiagent systems

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING; DYNAMIC CHANGES; DYNAMIC SCHEDULING; HOSPITAL SETTINGS; ITERATIVE BIDDING; SERVICE-SCHEDULING; TIME SLOTS;

CYBERNETICS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 78751495100     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2010.5642281     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (14)

1. J. Patrick and M. L. Puterman, "Improving resource utilization for diagnostic services through flexible inpatient scheduling: A method for improving resource utilization," Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol. 58, pp. 235-245, 2006.
2. Y. Gerchak, D. Gupta, and M. Henig, "Reservation planning for elective surgery under uncertain demand for emergency surgery," Management Science, vol. 42, pp. 321-334, 1996.
3. D. P. Strum, L. G. Vargas, and J. H. May, "Surgical subspecialty block utilization and capacity planning: a minimal cost analysis model," Anesthesiology, vol. 90, p. 1176, 1999.
4. D. P. Strum, J. H. May, and L. G. Vargas, "Modeling the uncertainty of surgical procedure times: comparison of log-normal and normal models," Anesthesiology, vol. 92, p. 1160, 2000.
5. S. C. Kim and I. Horowitz, "Scheduling hospital services: the efficacy of elective-surgery quotas," Omega, vol. 30, pp. 335-346, 2002.
6. T. R. Rohleder and K. J. Klassen, "Rolling horizon appointment scheduling: a simulation study," Health Care Management Science, vol. 5, pp. 201-209, 2002.
7. C. Marinagia, C. Spyropoulosa,C. Papatheodoroub," Continual planning and scheduling for managing patient tests in hospital laboratories" Artificial Intelligence in Medicine ,pp. 140-154,2000.
8. T. Paulussen, N. R. Jennings, K. S. Decker, "Distributed Patient Scheduling in Hospitals" 2003, Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence pp. 1224-1229.
9. V. PodgorelecJ, P.Kokol," Genetic Algorithm Based System for Patient Scheduling in Highly Constrained Situations" Journal of Medical Systems, Vol. 21, No. 6, 1997.
10. H.Manansang, J. Heim," An online simulation-based patient scheduling system" Proceedings of Winter Simulation Conference, pp.1170-1175, 1996.
11. F.Dexter,A.Macario, R. Traub," Computer Simulation of Patient Scheduling and Survey of Patients' Preferences for Surgical Waiting Time" Anesth Analg VoI.89,pp.7-20, 1999.
12. R.G. Smith, "The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver," IEEE Trans. Computers, vol. C-29, no. 12, pp. 1104-1113, 1980.
13. J. M. Keil, "On the complexity of scheduling tasks with discrete starting times" Operations Research Letters, vol. 12, pp. 293-295, 1992.
14. N. Nisan, "Bidding languages for combinatorial auctions" in Combinatorial Auctions, P. Cramton, Y. Shoham, and R. Steinberg, Eds., MIT Press, 2006.