• DocumentCode
    3549321
  • Title

    Time allocation simulation model of clean and dirty pathways in hospital environment

  • Author

    Krizmaric, Miljenko ; Zmauc, Tanja ; Micetic-Turk, Dusanka ; Stiglic, Gregor ; Kokol, Peter

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. Coll. of Nursing Studies, Maribor Univ., Slovenia
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    23-24 June 2005
  • Firstpage
    123
  • Lastpage
    127
  • Abstract
    In usual modern hospital architectural design we try to separate the clean and dirty corridor that should facilitate traffic flow of clean and dirty items. However that is not the case in the hospitals with older architectural design, where clean and dirty pathways flow through a single corridor systems. The most common solution which enables separation of clean and dirty pathways in such systems is introduction of time allocation for dirty and clean items transportation. Currently such schedules are fixed and do not allow quick changes in case of specific events. We propose a solution to the problem using multi-agent based system able to quickly adapt the schedule of transports.
  • Keywords
    biomedical engineering; digital simulation; health and safety; hospitals; medical computing; multi-agent systems; optimisation; clean pathway; dirty corridor; hospital architectural design; hospital environment; multiagent based system; time allocation simulation model; transport schedule; Computational modeling; Contamination; Educational institutions; Elevators; Hospitals; Medical services; Medical simulation; Optimal scheduling; Transportation; Waste materials;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2005. Proceedings. 18th IEEE Symposium on
  • ISSN
    1063-7125
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2355-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CBMS.2005.100
  • Filename
    1467678