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Evaluation Of Flow Line Structure Of Hospital With Spatial Cognitive Agent, Yunfeng Wang
Evaluation Of Flow Line Structure Of Hospital With Spatial Cognitive Agent, Yunfeng Wang
Journal of System Simulation
Abstract: Hospital flow line is the result of the mutual adaptation of its spatial layout and business process, which should be regarded as an independent analysis unit in the spatial layout design. Aiming at the phenomenon that the flow lines have the characteristics of both space and flow and are difficult to analyze, a spatial cognitive process of agents is established by introducing structural elements from the spatial syntax analysis as the knowledge coding language of agents. Evaluation indexes of hospital flow line structure based on computational experiment are proposed and implemented. The framework of flow line analysis combining flow …
A Systems Approach To Healthcare: Agent-Based Modeling, Community Mental Health, And Population Well-Being, Barry G. Silverman, Nancy Hanrahan, Gnana K. Bharathy, Kim Gordon, Dan Johnson
A Systems Approach To Healthcare: Agent-Based Modeling, Community Mental Health, And Population Well-Being, Barry G. Silverman, Nancy Hanrahan, Gnana K. Bharathy, Kim Gordon, Dan Johnson
Barry G Silverman
Purpose Explore whether agent-based modeling and simulation can help healthcare administrators discover interventions that increase population wellness and quality of care while, simultaneously, decreasing costs. Since important dynamics often lie in the social determinants outside the health facilities that provide services, this study thus models the problem at three levels (individuals, organizations, and society). Methods The study explores the utility of translating an existing (prize winning) software for modeling complex societal systems and agent's daily life activities (like a Sim City style of software), into a desired decision support system. A case study tests if the 3 levels of system …