Logistics engineering and health

This book presents the research that resulted from a fruitful collaboration between many CNRS research laboratories, health establishments and industrialists. This research contributes to the study and the development of logistical systems, in particular health-oriented logistical systems, in order...

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Main Author: Zgaya, Hayfa,
Other Authors: Hammadi, Slim,, ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2016.
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover ; Logistics Engineering and Health; Copyright ; Contents; Preface; List of Acronyms; Introduction; Chapter 1 Logistics Engineering; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Logistics: origins and evolution; 1.3. Logistics Network: definitions, characteristics and complexity ; 1.4. Logistics typology; 1.5. Quality/logistics convergence; 1.6. Infologistics: information systems for logistics; 1.7. Possible resolution methods in favor of logistics; 1.8. Conclusion; Chapter 2 Case Studies and Contributions to the Resolution of Logistics System-related Problems; 2.1. Introduction.
  • 2.2. Analogies between logistics systems2.3. Transport logistics ; 2.4. Crisis management logistics ; 2.5. Warehouse logistics ; 2.6. Conclusion; Chapter 3 Health Logistics: Toward Collaborative Approaches and Tools; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. The health sector ; 3.3. Emergence of new needs; 3.4. Health logistics; 3.5. Hospital emergency services; 3.6. Hospital and healthcare information systems; 3.7. Analogy between conventional and healthcare logistics; 3.8. Conclusion; Chapter 4 Collaborative Workflow for Patient Pathway Modeling at Pediatric Emergency Services; 4.1. Introduction.
  • 4.2. Definition of workflow4.3. Why use a "workflow approach" in health?; 4.4. Description of a workflow diagram type; 4.5. Health collaborative workflow; 4.6. Inter-operability concepts for health collaborative workflows; 4.7. Patient pathway description for PES (CHRU1 de Lille); 4.8. PES infrastructure ; 4.9. Collaborative workflow for modeling patient pathway in the steady state; 4.10. Agent-oriented approach for collaborative workflow; 4.11. Agent coalition for executing collaborative workflow; 4.12. Negotiation protocol between agents controlling a workflow instance.
  • 4.13. Global coherence and periodic behavior of collaborative workflow4.14. Treatment of generated collaborative workflow decision points; 4.15. Summary; 4.16. Agent activities for collaborative workflow; 4.17. Conclusion; Chapter 5 Agent-based Architecture for Task Scheduling and Dynamic Orchestration Support; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Mathematical formulation of the scheduling problem at PES; 5.3. Multiple competence task; 5.4. Agent-based modeling; 5.5. Descrption of a SA's behavior ; 5.6. Dynamic aggregative approach for evaluating fitness function; 5.7. Workflow orchestration.
  • 5.8. Simulation and results 5.9. Simulation and scheduling results: the SA's behavior; 5.10. Conclusion; General Conclusion and Perspectives; Bibliography; List of Authors; Index; Back Cover.