KR-driven Development Process Integration

Medical operation planning is a substantial element of hospital management. It is characterized by high complexity, which is caused by the uncertainty between the offered capacity and the true demand. As emergency cases occur the planning requirements will change. Therefore, the use of a dialog-based system is preferred against fully manual or fully automated systems, because of the inability of the latter to recognize the changes in a high dynamic environment. In order for an automatic created schedule to be accepted by involved personnel, it should include the interests and preferences of all the human actors. The objective is to build a suitable knowledge-based scheduler for the described problem, that considers a ward personnel’s preferences in the scheduling process. Furthermore, the target system should provide FIPA (Foundation of Intelligent and Physical Agents) compliant interaction capabilities for the integration in the Agent.Hospital Framework [2].