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In a distributed hospital system, different hospitals should collaborate among themselves for sharing their resources to provide better and faster service to the patients. We address the distributed hospital resource scheduling problem and apply the Generalized Partial Global Planning (GPGP) approach used for multiagent systems for the same. An adaptive coordination mechanism based on the contract net protocol is proposed to support inter-hospital collaboration. We have performed simulation studies and the experimental results show that our coordination mechanism performs better than commonly used schemes. Fault handling mechanisms are presented so that the system continues to provide service even in the presence of faults. The proposed approach is applicable in contexts other than the distributed hospital system as well.
This work is supported by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Govt. of India grant for the project entitled “Collaborative Computing Using Intelligent Agents”.
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Deshpande, U., Gupta, A., Basu, A. (2002). Adaptive Fault Tolerant Hospital Resource Scheduling. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2002: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE. OTM 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2519. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36124-3_29
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