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This paper presents an approach for contextualizing an event-based decision support system for scheduling patient assessments in a hospital. To cope with unexpected delays, patient coordinators often pursue a worst case scenario when scheduling patient assessments, leading to an underutilization of human resources and equipment when the procedure went without complications. We present a context-based decision support system for patient planning that helps the patient coordinator with taking well-informed rescheduling decisions and anticipating changes in other patients’ schedules. The system uses information and events produced by medical equipment. As these events can be non-deterministic, we demonstrate how our domain specific context model can be used to contextualize events to enhance their quality and ascertain their meaning.
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Wienhofen, L.W.M., Preuveneers, D., Landmark, A.D., Toussaint, P.J., Berbers, Y. (2011). A Notion of Event Quality for Contextualized Planning and Decision Support Systems. In: Beigl, M., Christiansen, H., Roth-Berghofer, T.R., Kofod-Petersen, A., Coventry, K.R., Schmidtke, H.R. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6967. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24279-3_33
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