Continual planning and scheduling for managing patient tests in hospital laboratories.
Hospital laboratories perform examination tests upon patients, in order to assist medical diagnosis or therapy progress. Planning and scheduling patient requests for examination tests is a complicated problem because it concerns both minimization of patient stay in hospital and maximization of laboratory resources utilization. In the present paper, we propose an integrated patient-wise planning and scheduling system which supports the dynamic and continual nature of the problem. The proposed combination of multiagent and blackboard architecture allows the dynamic creation of agents that share a set of knowledge sources and a knowledge base to service patient test requests.
Marinagi
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Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, National Centre for Scientific Research 'Demokritos', 15310, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece.
Spyropoulos
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Papatheodorou
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Kokkotos
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D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006752:Hospital Planning; D006801:Humans; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling