Agent-based simulation for healthcare services with stochastic events

• Nécio de Lima Veras IFCE
• Mariela I. Cortés UECE
• Gustavo A. Lima de Campos UECE

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wesaac.2015.33310

Abstract

Tentative of put in practice a planning to the offer of health services commonly has problems because of the occurrence of undesirable events. These events happen in a random way and they influence in a negative form the access and quality indicators of the planned services. This work presents a agent-based (computer) simulation to execute of schedules planned by an agent in a virtual environment for treatment, considering different scenarios to the evolution of treatments in an intermission of one planned year. The solution specifies three environments based on artifacts envolving in scenarios registering the statistic behavior of the health indicators.

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