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A Multiagent System for Coordinating Ambulances for Emergency Medical Services

To coordinate ambulances for emergency medical services, a multiagent system uses an auction mechanism based on trust. Results of tests using real data show that this system can efficiently assign ambulances to patients, thereby reducing transportation time. Emergency transportation on specialized vehicles is needed when a person’s health is in risk of irreparable damage. A patient can’t benefit from sophisticated medical treatments and technologies if she or he isn’t placed in a proper healthcare center with the appropriate medical team. For example, strokes are neurological emergencies involving a limited amount of time in which treatment measures are effective

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Author: López Ibáñez, Beatriz
Innocenti, Bianca
Busquets, Dídac
Date: 2008
Abstract: To coordinate ambulances for emergency medical services, a multiagent system uses an auction mechanism based on trust. Results of tests using real data show that this system can efficiently assign ambulances to patients, thereby reducing transportation time. Emergency transportation on specialized vehicles is needed when a person’s health is in risk of irreparable damage. A patient can’t benefit from sophisticated medical treatments and technologies if she or he isn’t placed in a proper healthcare center with the appropriate medical team. For example, strokes are neurological emergencies involving a limited amount of time in which treatment measures are effective
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Citation: López Ibáñez, B., Innocenti, B., i Busquets Font, D. (2008). A Multiagent System for Coordinating Ambulances for Emergency Medical Services. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 23, 5, 50-57. Recuperat 15 juny 2010, a http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4629726
ISSN: 1541-1672
Document access: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/2631
Language: eng
Publisher: IEEE
Collection: Reproducció digital del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2008.76
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Is part of: © IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2008, vol. 23, p. 50-57
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Subject: Agents intel·ligents (Programari)
Medicina -- Informàtica
Servei d’ambulàncies
Sistemes multiagent
Urgències mèdiques, Serveis d’
Ambulance service
Intelligent agents (Computer software)
Medicine -- Data processing
Multiagent systems
Emergency medical services
Title: A Multiagent System for Coordinating Ambulances for Emergency Medical Services
Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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