Intelligent scheduling
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AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
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Programming Multi-Agent Systems in AgentSpeak using Jason (Wiley Series in Agent Technology)
Dynamic distributed constraint reasoning
AAAI'08 Proceedings of the 23rd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 3
An Efficient Algorithm for Solving Dynamic Complex DCOP Problems
WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 02
A scalable method for multiagent constraint optimization
IJCAI'05 Proceedings of the 19th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems
An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems
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MICAI'12 Proceedings of the 11th Mexican international conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence - Volume Part I
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Scheduling of patients, staff, and resources for elective surgery in an under-resourced and overburdened public health system represents an inherently distributed class of problems. The complexity and dynamics of interacting factors demand a flexible, reactive and timely solution, in order to achieve a high level of utilization. In this paper, we present an Automated Scheduler for Elective Surgery (ASES) wherein we model the problem using the multiagent systems paradigm. ASES is designed to reflect and complement the existing manual methods of elective surgery scheduling, while offering efficient mechanisms for negotiation and optimization. Inter-agent negotiation in ASES is powered by a distributed constraint optimization algorithm. This strategy provides hospital departments with control over their individual schedules while ensuring conflict free optimal scheduling. We evaluate ASES to demonstrate the feasibility of our approach and demonstrate the effect of fluctuation in staffing levels on theatre utilization. We also discuss ongoing development of the system, mapping key challenges in the journey towards deployment.