An efficient outpatient scheduling approach

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 701-709

  Zhu, Haibin ^a   Hou, Ming ^b   Wang, Chun ^c   Zhou, Mengchu ^d  

^a NIPISSING UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

^d Department of Computer Science and Technology   (China)

Author keywords

Agents; Outpatient scheduling; Role assignment; Roles

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES; COMPLEX PROBLEMS; GROUP ROLES; HEALTHCARE FACILITY; QUALIFICATION MATRIX; ROLE ASSIGNMENT; ROLES; TIME SLOTS;

AGENTS; HEALTH CARE;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 84867399369     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2012.2207453     Document Type: Article

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