Assisting the Spanish Organ Transplant Coordination Process with Multi-Agent Systems
Aı̈da Valls, Antonio Moreno · Birkhäuser Basel eBooks · 2003
This paper presents a multi-agent support system for the different stages of an organ transplant process. With the automatisation of certain tasks in this complex coordination process, we can decrease the time spent before the organ reaches the medical centre of the receiver. This is very important because organs degrade very quickly and they cannot be frozen. The paper explains how we can improve the: searching of possible receivers, the selection of the most appropriate candidate, the transport of the organ and the scheduling of the surgical operation. The design of this prototype has been done according to the Spanish Model of transplant co-ordination These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.