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Artificial Intelligence
Modular utility representation for decision-theoretic planning
Proceedings of the first international conference on Artificial intelligence planning systems
Rules of encounter: designing conventions for automated negotiation among computers
Rules of encounter: designing conventions for automated negotiation among computers
Semantics for hierarchical task-network planning
Semantics for hierarchical task-network planning
Task environment centered simulation
Simulating organizations
Intelligent Adaptive Information Agents
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue: adaptive intelligent agents
Towards a Distributed, Environment-Centered Agent Framework
ATAL '99 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VI, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL),
On-Line Learning of Coordination Plans
On-Line Learning of Coordination Plans
Designing a Family of Coordination Algorithms
Designing a Family of Coordination Algorithms
Negotiation and Its Role in Cooperative Distributed Problem-Solving
Negotiation and Its Role in Cooperative Distributed Problem-Solving
Environment centered analysis and design of coordination mechanisms
Environment centered analysis and design of coordination mechanisms
Complex goal criteria and its application in design-to-criteria scheduling
AAAI'97/IAAI'97 Proceedings of the fourteenth national conference on artificial intelligence and ninth conference on Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Evolution of the GPGP/TÆMS domain-independent coordination framework
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
Coordination mechanisms for dependency relationships among multiple agents
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
Developing Alternative Mechanisms for Multiagent Coordination
Proceedings of the 5th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi Agents: Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Coordinating Intelligent Agents
Selected papers from the UKMAS Workshop on Foundations and Applications of Multi-Agent Systems
Adaptive Fault Tolerant Hospital Resource Scheduling
On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, 2002 - DOA/CoopIS/ODBASE 2002 Confederated International Conferences DOA, CoopIS and ODBASE 2002
Multi-agent coordination: a fuzzy logic based approach
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Patient scheduling under uncertainty
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Evolution of the GPGP/TÆMS Domain-Independent Coordination Framework
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Managing Multi-Agent Coordination, Planning, and Scheduling
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Multiagent planning through plan repair
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Analyzing characteristics of task structures to develop GPGP coordination mechanisms
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Organizational self-design in semi-dynamic environments
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
DECIDE: Applying Multi-agent Design and Decision Logic to a Baggage Handling System
Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems
Exploring Robustness in the Context of Organizational Self-design
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems IV
Adaptive resource allocation for efficient patient scheduling
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Exploiting agent diagnosis for plan repair in MAS
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Online scheduling of pick-up and delivery tasks in hospitals
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Of Mechanism Design Multiagent Planning
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on ECAI 2008: 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Distributed patient scheduling in hospitals
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
A distributed control loop for autonomous recovery in a multi-agent plan
IJCAI'09 Proceedings of the 21st international jont conference on Artifical intelligence
Introduction to planning in multiagent systems
Multiagent and Grid Systems - Planning in multiagent systems
Quantifying privacy in multiagent planning
Multiagent and Grid Systems - Planning in multiagent systems
Stigmergic modeling of hierarchical task networks
MABS'09 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Multi-agent-based simulation
Degrees of terminal cooperativeness and the efficiency of the barge handling process
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Coordination through plan repair
MICAI'05 Proceedings of the 4th Mexican international conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
The analysis of coordination in an information system application: emergency medical services
AOIS'04 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Agent-Oriented Information Systems II
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Hospital Patient Scheduling is an inherently distributed problem because of the way real hospitals are organized. As medical procedures have become more complex, and their associated tests and treatments have become interrelated, the current ad hoc patient scheduling solutions have been observed to break down. We propose a multi-agent solution using the Generalized Partial Global Planning (GPGP) approach that preserves the existing human organization and authority structures, while providing better system-level performance (increased hospital unit throughput and decreased patient stay time). To do this, we extend GPGP with a new coordination mechanism to handle mutually exclusive resource relationships. Like the other GPGP mechanisms, the new mechanism can be applied to any problem with the appropriate resource relationship. We evaluate this new mechanism in the context of the hospital patient scheduling problem, and examine the effect of increasing interrelations between tasks performed by different hospital units.