Title :
Compliance Enforcement of Temporal and Dosage Constraints
Author :
Tsai, P.H. ; Yeh, H.C. ; Yu, C.Y. ; Hsiu, P.C. ; Shih, C.S. ; Liu, J.W.S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu
Abstract :
Medication dispensers treated in this paper are designed to help improve compliance by users who live at homes and take medications over long periods of time. The paper first presents an overview of medication specifications that define constraints for dispensers and dispenser components that administer medications as specified. When given a specification and constraints defined by it, the dispenser scheduler checks for consistency and feasibility of constraints and schedules medications to meet the constraints. Several basic algorithms needed for these purposes are described and evaluated
Keywords :
drug delivery systems; health care; scheduling; compliance enforcement; dispenser scheduler; dosage constraint; medication dispenser; medication specification; temporal constraint; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer science; Drugs; Dynamic scheduling; Information science; Internet; Medical treatment; Processor scheduling; Scheduling algorithm; Senior citizens;
Conference_Titel :
Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2006. RTSS '06. 27th IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Rio de Janeiro
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2761-2
DOI :
10.1109/RTSS.2006.14
