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- From: kaskubar@mayo.edu (Bruce Kaskubar)
- Subject: Scheduling problem
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- Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 19:54:03 GMT
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- Problem shape...
-
- I'm a medical center. I have an (out)patient in a clinic that
- needs medical services (like a chest X-ray, a blood draw for
- laboratory tests, a consultation with a physician, and an EKG). I
- have locations where specified services can be performed. I have
- staff people certified to provide specified services. I can
- perform a certain volume of each service per unit time. Each
- service may interact with other services in relationships such as
- prerequisite, postrequisite, result conflict (i.e., service A's
- performance invalidates service B's result if A is performed during
- specified time period relative to B). For each patient's set of
- ordered services, I want a computer to build, say, an itinerary
- including location, date, time, and service provider.
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- Solution?
-
- The solution appears amenable to knowledge-based systems, no? If
- so, where can I find a body of work that describes algorithms for
- solution to such a problem?
-
- Thanks,
-
- Bruce Kaskubar (kaskubar@mayo.edu)
-