Applications of Intelligent Agents in Hospital Search and Appointment System

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyrone Edwards ◽  
Suresh Sankaranarayanan
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Healthcare Facility ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Major Constraint ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Appointment System ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Agent Development

Access to the correct healthcare facility is a major concern for most people, many of whom gather information about the existing hospitals and healthcare facilities in their locality. After gathering such information, people must do a comparison of the information, make a selection, and then make an appointment with the concerned doctor. The time spent for this purpose would be a major constraint for many individuals. Research is currently underway in this area on incorporating Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to improve the services available in the health industry. This paper proposes an agent based approach to replicate the same search operations as the individual would otherwise do, by employing an intelligent agent. The proposed agent based system has been simulated and also validated through implementation on an individual’s smart phone or a PDA using JADE-LEAP agent development kit.

Applications of Intelligent Agents in Hospital Search and Appointment System

2013 ◽  
pp. 302-321
Author(s):  
Tyrone Edwards ◽  
Suresh Sankaranarayanan
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Intelligent Agent ◽  
Healthcare Facility ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Appointment System ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Agent Development

Access to the correct healthcare facility is a major concern for most people, many of whom gather information about the existing hospitals and healthcare facilities in their locality. After gathering such information, people must do a comparison of the information, make a selection, and then make an appointment with the concerned doctor. The time spent for this purpose would be a major constraint for many individuals. Research is currently underway in this area on incorporating Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to improve the services available in the health industry. This paper proposes an agent based approach to replicate the same search operations as the individual would otherwise do, by employing an intelligent agent. The proposed agent based system has been simulated and also validated through implementation on an individual’s smart phone or a PDA using JADE-LEAP agent development kit.

scholarly journals 60 Opening the Narrative on Deprivation of Liberty for the Older Person in Residential Healthcare Facilities: A Legal and Ethical Dilemma

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. iii17-iii65
Author(s):  
Florence Hogan ◽  
Adrian Ahern
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Healthcare Facility ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Best Interest ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
The Individual

Abstract Background While many people enter residential care of their own free will and because it is their preference, the evidence tells us that there are also many who if they had the choice would remain in their own homes. Lack of appropriate community supports may provide some impetus to enter residential care. According to Care Alliance Ireland, an additional four million hours of homecare needs to be provided to cope with the successful ageing demographics, at a cost of €110 million. There is no statutory or common-law power to detain a patient in a Healthcare Facility outside of the application of the Mental Health Act 2001. This presents legal, ethical and moral dilemmas for Healthcare Providers when caring for a person who lacks capacity wishes to self - discharge. A duty of care obligates healthcare professionals to act in the best interest of the individual. Under the Health Act 2007 the requirement is to provide for a ‘safe discharge’. Pending advancement of the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015 which provides a statutory framework to assist and support individuals to make legally-binding agreements about their welfare, their property and affairs we are currently acting under the Lunacy Regulations (1871). Methods We developed a ‘Deprivation of Liberty’ form which enable comprehensive Interdisciplinary Team discussion and direction of care. Presumption of capacity, respect for the resident’s wishes and consideration of all possible supportive actions up to and including sourcing community support services were considered. Results This format has enabled comprehensive discussion and robust adherence to human rights for three residents thus far Conclusion The situation remains that there is no legal framework to guide healthcare providers currently. Using a Human Rights based approach is imperative to guide us while awaiting advancement of the ADMA (2015) and Deprivation of Liberty legislation to be included in this act.

scholarly journals How information and communication technologies change trends in modelling political processes: towards an agent-based approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-45
Author(s):  
Andrei Akhremenko ◽  
Alexander Petrov ◽  
Sergey Zheglov
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Game Theoretic ◽  
The Individual

The development of information and communication technologies and computing power leads to the emergence of additional opportunities for modeling political processes. In the past decades, mathematical models have been developed mainly in a game-theoretic setting; today we witness an expanding stream of research applying agent-based (multi-agent) approach. This trend is quite natural. There have been changes in political participation and in the forms of collective interaction of individuals and groups, induced by digital technologies. Researchers have developed theoretical approaches to political participation, focusing on the network interaction and implementing the “bottom-up” logic that infers the macro-properties of the system from the characteristics and interactions of individual agents. Thus, the theoretical foundations for an agent-based modeling, most promising in its network version, have been developed. This approach, however, required a more complex description of the individual motivation and decision making in comparison to the dominant game-theoretic paradigm. One of the key points is that motivation is considered to be linked to the network position of agents, since the individual is guided by the actions of her neighbors. Thus, the course of the political process is determined not only by the properties and decisions of its participants, but also by the type of network architecture that connects them. Within this research framework, a computational experiment, assuming a controlled variation of parameters, plays a special role. Two main strategies of such an experiment are considered: the grid search and the Monte Carlo method. The prospects of agentbased modeling in its network form are related to the study of the dynamical political processes, taking into account the structures of trust and social capital, as well as the resources and mechanisms of collective action.

scholarly journals Information and Communication Technology in the Role of Information System of Healthcare Facility in the Slovak Republic

Economies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beáta Gavurová ◽  
Antonio Balloni ◽  
Miriama Tarhaničová ◽  
Viliam Kováč
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Healthcare Facility ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Integrated Research ◽  
Information And Communication

The study presents a general overview of the healthcare facility system of the Slovak Republic, especially in a field of the innovation process of the management information system, with a purpose of analysing the consistency and a unity of the system. The data applied in this analysis is collected as a part of the Gesiti research project. This project is developed for mapping out the management of an information system and information technology in healthcare facilities around the whole world. The main goal of the project is to identify the needs and the demands of the healthcare facilities and to create an integrated research report with a focus on a report research roadmap. The information and communication technologies that are applied are partially unsuitable in the healthcare facilities in the Slovak Republic. Information systems are used without exact plans of their future development. This makes it almost impossible to develop them according to the modern needs and to join them with the other systems that are currently used. The big issues also lie in financing these systems and the personnel responsible for them. The outcome of the analysis should create a direction for financial decision making support and for better management of the healthcare facilities, both in the public and the private sector.

Evidence-Based Design in Hospital Renovation Projects: A Study of Design Implementation for User Controls

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Evan Bingham ◽  
David Whitaker ◽  
Jay Christofferson ◽  
Justin Weidman
Keyword(s):  
Building Design ◽  
Healthcare Facility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Natural Lighting ◽  
User Control ◽  
Control Factors ◽  
Bed Position ◽  
The Individual

Purpose: The purpose of this article was to investigate and report the implementation of evidence-based design (EBD) principles relating to user controls into hospital renovation projects. Background: Progress requires the application of the most recent knowledge and technology. When it comes to the design and construction of healthcare facilities, the latest knowledge comes in the form of EBD research. EBD is the process of basing decisions about the built environment on credible research to achieve the best possible outcomes. The desired outcomes of EBD recommendations include improvements to enhance user control. User control factors include the individual control over bed position, air temperature, lights, sound, and natural light. Method: A list of recommendations from existing EBD literature related to user controls was compiled. Construction documents from 30 recent healthcare facility renovation projects across the United States were obtained and analyzed. Implementation levels for the EBD categories of user controls were reported. Results: The findings indicate relatively extensive industry use of EBD principles relating to user control of temperature, lights, and natural lighting. Conclusions: The findings indicate that EBD recommendations related to user controls are being adopted in practice at consistently high levels. These findings also reveal that there are still areas of potential improvement which could inform those who influence or determine building design, codes, standards, and guidelines. The results are helpful to owners, designers, and contractors by providing a glimpse into how well the industry is recognizing and implementing known best practices. The findings likewise introduce new opportunities for further research which could lead to additional improvement in the healthcare facilities of the future.

scholarly journals Agent based coordination protocol for system of cyber-physical systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (S2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aisha Umair ◽  
Anders Clausen ◽  
Yves Demazeau ◽  
Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
Cyber Physical Systems ◽  
Coordination Mechanism ◽  
Virtual Power ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Physical Systems ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Greenhouse Growers ◽  
The Individual

AbstractNowadays, society and business rely heavily on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems, which are progressing faster than ever. To stay on pace with them, focus is shifted towards integration of individual ICT systems into complex systems, which offers more functionality than simply the sum of individual systems. In this regard, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) have gained significant importance and System-of-Systems (SoS) approach has been suggested for modeling complex CPSs to achieve a higher level goal, by dynamically building a large system with existing autonomous, and heterogeneous constituent systems (CSs). An important challenge in a system of Cyber-Physical Systems (SoCPSs) is to develop seamless collaboration between autonomous constituent-CPSs (CCPSs) to coordinate their operations. In this paper, we propose an agent based coordination mechanism to coordinate resource allocation and demand in SoCPSs. The approach models each CCPS as an agent and describes how multiple autonomous CCPSs, i.e., Virtual Power Plant (VPP), Commercial Greenhouse Growers (CGGs), communicate and collaborate with each other asynchronously through negotiation and how potential conflicts between CCPSs with conflicting goals are resolved. The efficacy of the proposed mechanism is validated through simulation of different real-world acyclic SoCPSs topologies. The results show that proposed approach is able to balance the individual requirements of multiple connected CPSs while achieving SoCPSs’ mission.

scholarly journals Agent-Based Dispatching Enables Autonomous Groupage Traffic

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Gath ◽  
Stefan Edelkamp ◽  
Otthein Herzog
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Time Windows ◽  
Reactive System ◽  
Adaptive Planning ◽  
Routing Problem ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Planning And Control ◽  
The Individual

Abstract The complexity and dynamics in groupage traffic require flexible, efficient, and adaptive planning and control processes. The general problem of allocating orders to vehicles can be mapped into the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). However, in practical applications additional requirements complicate the dispatching processes and require a proactive and reactive system behavior. To enable automated dispatching processes, this article presents a multiagent system where the decision making is shifted to autonomous, interacting, intelligent agents. Beside the communication protocols and the agent architecture, the focus is on the individual decision making of the agents which meets the specific requirements in groupage traffic. To evaluate the approach we apply multiagent-based simulation and model several scenarios of real world infrastructures with orders provided by our industrial partner. Moreover, a case study is conducted which covers the autonomous groupage traffic in the current processes of our industrial parter. The results reveal that agent-based dispatching meets the sophisticated requirements of groupage traffic. Furthermore, the decision making supports the combination of pickup and delivery tours efficiently while satisfying logistic request priorities, time windows, and capacity constraints.

scholarly journals DEEP SCOPE: A Framework for Safe Healthcare Design

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
pp. 7780
Author(s):  
Ellen Taylor ◽  
Sue Hignett
Keyword(s):  
Human Factor ◽  
Healthcare Facility ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Facility Design ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Healthcare Design ◽  
Accident Causation ◽  
Healthcare Facility Design

Thinking in patient safety has evolved over time from more simplistic accident causation models to more robust frameworks of work system design. Throughout this evolution, less consideration has been given to the role of the built environment in supporting safety. The aim of this paper is to theoretically explore how we think about harm as a systems problem by mitigating the risk of adverse events through proactive healthcare facility design. We review the evolution of thinking in safety as a safety science. Using falls as a case study topic, we use a previously published model (SCOPE: Safety as Complexity of the Organization, People, and Environment) to develop an expanded framework. The resulting theoretical model and matrix, DEEP SCOPE (DEsigning with Ergonomic Principles), provide a way to synthesize design interventions into a systems-based model for healthcare facility design using human factors/ergonomics (HF/E) design principles. The DEEP SCOPE matrix is proposed to highlight the design of safe healthcare facilities as an ergonomic problem of design that fits the environment to the user by understanding built environments that support the “human” factor.

scholarly journals Of Visions and Visionaries: Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
Barbara Schulte ◽  
Marina Svensson
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Empirical Reality ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Individual Contributions ◽  
State Governance ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Chinese State ◽  
The Individual

This special issue approaches information and communication technologies (ICT) visions and their realisation/implementation at various levels, among different actors and from various perspectives. Conceptually, we distinguish three different dimensions, even though those overlap in the individual contributions as well as in empirical reality – namely ideational, instrumental, and relational. The different contributions address both visions formulated by the Chinese state and by individual actors such as entrepreneurs. Even though the conditions for the use of ICT in China are deeply affected by state governance, this governance is in no way tantamount to one single government. As this issue’s contributions show, state attempts at building a stable cyber-governance are in need of allies and, depending on the allies’ visions and other, competitive visions, the outcomes of these dynamics are seldom truthful realisations of one original grand masterplan.

scholarly journals Task allocation and site fidelity jointly influence foraging regulation in honeybee colonies

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 170344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thiago Mosqueiro ◽  
Chelsea Cook ◽  
Ramon Huerta ◽  
Jürgen Gadau ◽  
Brian Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Site Fidelity ◽  
Collective Behaviour ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Resource Collection ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Collective Foraging ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Colony Level ◽  
And Task

Variation in behaviour among group members often impacts collective outcomes. Individuals may vary both in the task that they perform and in the persistence with which they perform each task. Although both the distribution of individuals among tasks and differences among individuals in behavioural persistence can each impact collective behaviour, we do not know if and how they jointly affect collective outcomes. Here, we use a detailed computational model to examine the joint impact of colony-level distribution among tasks and behavioural persistence of individuals, specifically their fidelity to particular resource sites, on the collective trade-off between exploring for new resources and exploiting familiar ones. We developed an agent-based model of foraging honeybees, parametrized by data from five colonies, in which we simulated scouts, who search the environment for new resources, and individuals who are recruited by the scouts to the newly found resources, i.e. recruits. We varied the persistence of returning to a particular food source of both scouts and recruits and found that, for each value of persistence, there is a different optimal ratio of scouts to recruits that maximizes resource collection by the colony. Furthermore, changes to the persistence of scouts induced opposite effects from changes to the persistence of recruits on the collective foraging of the colony. The proportion of scouts that resulted in the most resources collected by the colony decreased as the persistence of recruits increased. However, this optimal proportion of scouts increased as the persistence of scouts increased. Thus, behavioural persistence and task participation can interact to impact a colony's collective behaviour in orthogonal directions. Our work provides new insights and generates new hypotheses into how variations in behaviour at both the individual and colony levels jointly impact the trade-off between exploring for new resources and exploiting familiar ones.

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