Agent-based Approach of Multi-Structures Homecare Planning Problem

Abstract

In the context of population aging and the significant demographic changes, the phenomenon of population aging is taking place throughout the world, and involving many social and economic implications. In the health care context, the phenomenon of population aging is a source of concern for policymakers. Indeed, the income growth of the elderly increases health expenditures, and strongly increases expenditures, especially on long-term care. In response to those implications, a growing interest in homecare organizations, transitions, and concerns have been approved. However, the home health care structures would have been much more difficult to tackle the new challenges without the proactive assistant of their operational management and organizational process, particularly the planning and scheduling of human resource activities. Taking advantage of the inherent characteristics of the Multi-agent system, this work introduces a distributed framework to improve the organizational decision in the homecare sector, particularly, the planning management of a set of patients shared between multiple homecare structures. In order, to facilitate complex daily activities, and to improve the quality of planning solutions in the homecare sector