Simulation environment for the optimization of the data retrieval capabilities of an agent based system in a healthcare setting

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2011

Authors

Patriarca Almeida, JH (Author) Other; Vieira Marques, PM (Author) FMUP; Cruz Correia, RJ (Author) FMUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Pages: 124-132

Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing - 5th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2011, Toulouse, France, August 29-31, 2011. Proceedings

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Authenticus ID: P-008-090

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23181-0_12

Abstract (EN): A Virtual Electronic Patient Record (VEPR) has been deployed at Hospital de S. João since 2005, that retrieves and integrates clinical record data. One of its modules is a Multi-Agent system for Integration of Data (MAID) that provides automatic report retrieval from departmental systems. The currently deployed MAID uses a static interval for the retrieval of report references. As each department differs in report production rate throughout the day there was a need to optimize and adapt the report reference retrieval to each departmental system. As this optimization could not be done with the deployed system, a simulation environment was developed that enables the testing and comparison of different optimization options using real past report data as reference. The use of the simulation environment has proven to be essential for the development of the optimization solution as it allows the comparison of variables related to the optimization process. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 9