A three-level strategy for the design and performance evaluation of hospital departments

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 742-756

  Fanti, Maria Pia ^a   Mangini, Agostino Marcello ^b   Dotoli, Mariagrazia ^a   Ukovich, Walter ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Healthcare systems; Modeling; Performance evaluation; Petri nets (PNs); Simulation

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENT MANAGEMENTS; HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM; OPTIMIZATION MODULE; OPTIMIZED PARAMETER; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE INDICES; PETRI NETS (PNS); SIMULATION; CONTINUOUS MODELING; FLUID APPROXIMATION;

DESIGN; HOSPITALS; MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PETRI NETS; TOOLS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

EID: 84887038165     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2012.2217319     Document Type: Article

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