Agent-based patient admission scheduling in hospitals

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 1733-1740

  Hutzschenreuter, Anke K ^a,b   Bosman, Peter A N ^b   Blonk Altena, Ilona ^c   Van Aarle, Jan ^c   La Poutré, Han ^a,b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

^c CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling and simulation; Agent based planning; Decision support tool; Health care logistics; Patient admission planning

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HOSPITALS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; SCHEDULING;

AGENT BASED; AGENT-BASED DECISION SUPPORT; AGENT-BASED MODELING AND SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; OPTIMIZATION MODULE; PATIENT ADMISSIONS; PROBABILISTIC TREATMENTS; SCHEDULING DECISIONS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

EID: 84899994412     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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