Planning and scheduling patient tests in hospital laboratories

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

Volumn 1211, Issue , 1997, Pages 307-318

  Spyropoulos, Constantine D ^a   Kokkotos, Stavros ^a   Marinagi, Catherine ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SCHEDULING;

DISTRIBUTED PLANNING; DOMAIN STRUCTURE; EQUIPMENT UTILIZATION; INTEGRATED PLANNING; PLANNING AND SCHEDULING; PLANNING TECHNIQUES;

HOSPITALS;

EID: 84958040026     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/BFb0029464     Document Type: Conference Paper

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