Decentralized privacy-concerned assignment of ambulances in special emergencies

This paper addresses the assignment of patients to ambulances in the case of inaccessibility to a central deciding entity, so patients have to be assigned through a dynamic decentralized coordination of ambulances. The suggested solution consists of BDI agents acting as ambulances and directly negotiating patient assignments with their ambulance peers. Since the privacy of health information is specially protected by law, negotiating ambulances that may be not the ones finally moving such patients to the hospital do not have access to this sensible health information. Simulations of agents show how this privacy-aware solution is compared with an alternative where all health information is shared. In this way, a measure of how much efficiency cost implies the use of the limited privacy protection is estimated.

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