A Framework for Resource Allocation in Time Critical Dynamic Environments Based on Social Welfare and Local Search and its Application to Healthcare

This thesis provides an artificial intelligence approach for the problem of resource allocation in time-critical dynamic environments. Motivated by healthcare scenarios such as mass casualty incidents, we are concerned with making effective decisions about allocating to patients the limited resource...

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Main Author: Shaft, Dean
Language:en
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/8259