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Adaptivity and Scheduling

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The structures in health care are currently changing. Clinical management and physicians have the obligation to both ensure quality of care and to work more cost effectively. The optimization of the system respecting these contrary goals is a big challenge. New information technology and computer applications like adaptive agent based assistance agents may be one way to optimize the system. Additionally organizational changes regarding resources or processes may also enhance the system. In many cases the effects of optimization ideas are difficult to foresee. This chapter describes the possibilities of multiagent simulation for experimentation and optimization of adaptive scheduling in hospitals. It presents a specialized agent based construction kit for hospital simulation and describes the results of realized example scenarios.

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  1. Lehrstuhl für Künstliche Intelligenz und Angewandte Informatik, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg

    Rainer Herrler & Frank Puppe

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  1. Wirtschaftsinformatik II (510 O), Universität Hohenheim, Schwerzstraße 35, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany

    Stefan Kirn

  2. Technologie-Zentrum Informatik, Universität Bremen, Am Fallturm 1, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Otthein Herzog

  3. Institut für Programmstrukturen und Datenorganisation (IPD), Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Am Fasanengarten 5, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Peter Lockemann

  4. Lehrstuhl für Informatik 4, RWTH Aachen, Ahornstraße 55, 52074, Aachen, Germany

    Otto Spaniol

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Herrler, R., Puppe, F. (2006). Adaptivity and Scheduling. In: Kirn, S., Herzog, O., Lockemann, P., Spaniol, O. (eds) Multiagent Engineering. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-32062-8_15

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