Swarm intelligence for resource allocation of emergency situations in hospitals

Abstract

This paper focuses on resource scheduling for patients at emergency department in hospitals. Scheduling and coordinating of patients at emergency department is faced with a high amount of complexity due to the inherent dynamics of the processes and the distributed organizational structure of hospitals. As a solution, multi-agent system is presented, in which patients, emergency department human resources and physical resources are represented as autonomous agents. These agents are able to react flexibly to changes and disturbances (e.g. emergencies and complications) through pro-activeness and reactivates. The solution is mainly focuses on emergency situations at hospitals. Emergency admission is when admission is unpredictable and at short notice because of clinical need. This paper describes a solution to overcome the difficulties that occurs at the emergency situations. The system has been developed on Jade environment and can run on any computer.