Multiagent based scheduling of elective surgery

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7057 LNAI, Issue , 2012, Pages 74-89

  Khanna, Sankalp ^a,b   Cleaver, Timothy ^a   Sattar, Abdul ^a   Hansen, David ^b   Stantic, Bela ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distributed Constraint Optimization; Multiagent Systems

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED CONSTRAINT OPTIMIZATIONS; ELECTIVE SURGERIES; MANUAL METHODS; MULTIAGENT-BASED SCHEDULING; OPTIMAL SCHEDULING; PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEMS; STAFFING LEVEL; UNDER-RESOURCED;

ALGORITHMS; DATA PRIVACY; NETWORK SECURITY; OPTIMIZATION; SCHEDULING; SURGERY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84887223340     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25920-3_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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