Performance evaluation of scheduling policies in a smart hospital environment

Proceedings - 2011 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, CyberC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 585-592

  Chen, Xiao ^a   Thomas, Nigel ^a   Harrison, Michael ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC SCHEDULING; PATIENT FLOW; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SCHEDULING POLICIES; SMART ENVIRONMENT; SMART HOSPITAL; STATIC SCHEDULING;

HOSPITALS;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 83455211985     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CyberC.2011.99     Document Type: Conference Paper

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