Self-Organized Scheduling in Hospitals by Connecting Agents and Mobile Devices

A Simulation Platform Prototype for Evaluating Alternative Scenarios of Members Integration in Virtual Organizations

“…In a collaborative network, relations between integrating members generate information that is highly valuable to support a useful decision-making process, minimizing the costs associated to its operation and thus contributing to the maximization of potentially associated income opportunities. In order to provide a contribution in this context, besides interesting existing work in this area, such as [1][2][3][4][5], our proposal is based on previous work, such as [6][7][8][9][10][11]. Moreover, we did not come across any proposal that jointly considers the application of a dynamic multi-criteria decision approach, integrating a data fusion model for improving collaboration and better supporting businesses integration within a virtual enterprise context, not being restricted to a given business model or particular industrial sector.…”

“…The proposed platform is particularly focused on the process of identification, evaluation and selection of suppliers and businesses and integrates services based on the cloud to increase its flexibility and scalability. In order to provide a contribution in this context, besides the existence of some existing work in this area [1][2][3][4][5], our proposal is based on previous contributions, which include [6][7][8][9][10][11].…”