Title :
A new approach to the nurse scheduling problem
Author :
Okada, Mihoko ; Okada, Masahiko
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Gen. Educ., Niigata Univ., Japan
Abstract :
For nursing-staff scheduling in a hospital, the authors present a method for constructing an agency-independent core upon which particular requirements can be tailored. The approach is to separate the institution-specific knowledge from the general scheduling procedure. A scheduling system tailored to a given institution is provided by incorporating the institution-dependent declarative program into the general procedure. A software system was developed in Prolog using this approach.<>
Keywords :
expert systems; medical administrative data processing; Prolog software system; agency-independent core; hospital; institution-dependent declarative program; nursing-staff scheduling;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1988. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0785-2
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1988.95303
