title: Emergency response nurse scheduling with medical support robot by multi-agent and fuzzy technique.
abstract: In this paper, a new co-operative re-scheduling method corresponding the medical support tasks that the time of occurrence can not be predicted is described, assuming robot can co-operate medical activities with the nurse. Here, Multi-Agent-System (MAS) is used for the co-operative re-scheduling, in which Fuzzy-Contract-Net (FCN) is applied to the robots task assignment for the emergency tasks. As the simulation results, it is confirmed that the re-scheduling results by the proposed method can keep the patients satisfaction and decrease the work load of the nurse.
authors.forename: Shinya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kono
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kitamura
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D012371:Robotics