Paper Info
Title
Solving operating theater facility layout problem using a Multi-Agent system
Abstract
Operating Theater Layout Problem (OTLP) has a great impact on the productivity and the efficiency of the health process. While solving OTLP, Real-life Operating Theater (OT) sizes are larger than exact methods capacity, this lead to explore other methods as heuristics, metaheuristics or parallel treatment looking for approximate solutions. In this paper we developed a novel approach using a Multi-Agent (MA) Decision Making System (DMS) based on Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) for large-sized OTLP with objective of minimizing total traveling costs. The DMS generates exact solutions in reasonable time and gives the final OT layout in a graphic interface.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/CoDIT.2014.6996894
CoDIT
Keywords
Field
DocType
cost reduction,decision making,facilities layout,health care,hospitals,integer programming,linear programming,multi-agent systems,MA DMS,OTLP,decision making system,graphic interface,health care,mixed integer linear programming,multiagent system,operating theater facility layout problem,total traveling cost minimization,Facility Layout Problem,Multi-Agent Systems,Operating Theater,Operational research
Operating theater,Systems engineering,Facility layout problem,Multi-agent system,Engineering
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chraibi, A.100.34
Kharraja, S.200.34
Ibrahim H. Osman381594.23
Elbeqqali, O.421.31