An Approach for Hospital Planning with Multi-Agent Organizations

Abstract

Abstract. The background for this paper is a development that the Danish hospitals are undertaking which requires the establishment of a common emergency department. It is uncertain exactly what and how many resources the department needs and so resources are assigned dynamically as seen necessary by the staff. Such dynamic adjustments pose a challenge in predicting what consequences these adjustments may lead to. We propose an approach to deal with this challenge that applies simulation with intelligent agents and logics for organizational reasoning. We present some of the expected obstacles with this approach and potential ways to overcome them.

Adding Organizational Reasoning to Agent-Based Simulations in GAMA

“…To demonstrate the usage of the operational semantics defined in the previous section, we show an example of the organizational reasoning that the agents perform. For the example we use an organizational meta-model based on the one in [6] (see Table 1), which defines a simplified organizational meta-model for patient treatment in a hospital emergency room. Due to space limitations, we leave out details of the example.…”

Going beyond BDI for agent-based simulation

“…We could overcome this limitation by using an organizational meta-model such as AORTA. In previous work we presented an AORTA meta-model of the acute patient treatment process (Larsen & Villadsen, 2017). In the AORTA meta-model, we encode organizational knowledge in terms of roles, objectives and sub-objectives, role dependencies and conditions.…”

“…We have chosen these criteria in order to evaluate from different perspectives that we consider important in ABS: a modelling perspective, a software engineering perspective and a simulation perspective. The evaluation is based on previous work on using the agent organization framework AORTA to create a simulation model for an emergency care unit (Larsen & Villadsen, 2017).…”