Title :
Approach for optimized and dynamic medical emergency management
Author :
Hajjam, Amir ; Creput, Jean-Charles ; Koukam, Abder
Author_Institution :
Syst. & Transp. Lab., Univ. of Technol. of Belfort-Montbliard, Belfort
fDate :
June 30 2008-July 2 2008
Abstract :
This paper describes a new approach aiming at optimizing and improving the efficiency of the medical emergency services. The purpose is to optimize the use of human and material resources by assigning the appropriate doctor to each patient and as a result reduce costs and time reactivity. In order to do so, we tackled the problem as a dynamic vehicle routing problem within a time frame. We have developed a multi-agent simulator which includes an optimization module that is able to solve vehicle routing problems. We consider our approach as original since it consists of mixing artificial intelligence methods with classical heuristics. We consider it also as result oriented. Based on the Poisson process, we are able to simulate real situations and handle requests as soon as they are entered.
Keywords :
cost reduction; emergency services; evolutionary computation; health care; multi-agent systems; self-organising feature maps; stochastic processes; vehicles; Poisson process; artificial intelligence; cost reduction; dynamic medical emergency management; dynamic vehicle routing problem; dynamic vehicle routing problem within a time frame; medical emergency services; multi-agent simulator; Disaster management; Emergency services; Geographic Information Systems; Human resource management; Pathology; Project management; Real time systems; Routing; Technology management; Vehicle dynamics; Evolutionary algorithm; heuristics and vehicle routing; self-organizing map;
Conference_Titel :
Service Systems and Service Management, 2008 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1671-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1672-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICSSSM.2008.4598497