A Study on the Optimization of the Accommodation Number at Health Examination Center using Agent Based Modeling
AUTHORS
Suktae Kim,Department of Interior Architecture, College of Engineering, Inje University, Gimhae, Republic of Korea
ABSTRACT
The efficiency of moving path and reduction of waiting time are significant for health examination centers in terms of the convenience of examinees. Thus, this study identified problems of illustrated health examination centers and set the adjustment of the number of service and despair exchange as alternatives by using index drawn by agent-based simulations. Thus, it could obtain the improved effect of efficiency such as enormous reduction of time for examination time and rising numbers of people available for accommodation through the test simulation. The moderate setting of the number of service and the area distribution of space greatly affect the reduction of examination time and reasonable arrangement was effective in cutting the length of moving path. If this is applied to the phase of architectural design, it will be useful for reasonable spatial arrangement and calculating size with low costs.
KEYWORDS
Health Examination Center, Agent based Model, Discrete Event Simulation
REFERENCES
[1] K. E. Oh, W. S. Bak, S. S. Han, S. C. Park, S. C. Lee, “Developing Innovation Index of Hospital Service using 6Sigma and SERVQUAL”, Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management, vol.41, no.4, pp.555-566, (2013) (CrossRef)(Google Scholar)
[2] Dyer, R. F.; E. H. Forman, “An Analytic Approach to Marketing Decision”, Prentice-hall International Edition, (1993) (CrossRef)(Google Scholar)
[3] Dansky, K. H., Miles, J., “Patient Satisfaction with Ambulatory Healthcare Service: Waiting Time and Filling Time”, Hospital and Health Service Administration, vol.42, no.2, pp.165-177, (1997)(CrossRef)(Google Scholar)
[4] C. S, Park, E. J. Kawg, “A Case Study about Managing Waiting Time for Raising Customer’s Satisfaction in the Medical Service”, Korean Journal of Hospital Management, vol.14, no.3, pp.132-133, (2009)
[5] B. H. Kwon, “A Simulation Analysis for the Minimization of Outpatient’s Waiting Time at the Enrollment and Receipt Counter in a General Hospital”, Journal of Korean Society of Computer and Information, vol.2, no.1, pp.98, (1997)
[6] H. J. Yeo, W. S. Bak, M. C. Yoo, S. C. Park, S. C. Lee, Evaluation of Patients' Queue Environment on Medical Service using Queueing Theory, Journal of Korean Society Quality Management, vol.42, no.1, pp.71-79, (2014)(CrossRef)(Google Scholar)
[7] Korean Associate of Health Promotion Official Homepage http://www.kahp.or.kr/cms/doc.php?tkind=1&lkind=1&mkind=2, Feb 03 (2018)
[8] J. H. Jung, A Study on the Space Plan of a Health Examination Center Based on Environmental Psychological Behavior, Master’s Thesis of Hanyang University, (2011)
CITATION
COPYRIGHT
© 2018 Kim Suktae. Published by Global Vision Press. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CCBY4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.