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Chapter 3
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8131-4.ch003
ABSTRACT
The shortest path problem is a typical problem of optimization. This chapter presents an innovative model
associated with the use of case-based reasoning to solve a problem of routing vehicles in a Hospital of
El Paso, United States. In this chapter, diverse components are described to characterize this problem
through the use of a knowledge system. The algorithm was developed in Java, thus obtaining a tool which
determines the best tracks to the vehicles associated with ambulances. An experiment was realized to
probe the validations; the results were used to compare it with the Dijkstra algorithm and determine
the quality of the results. The future research of this intelligent tool is to determine an innovative per-
spective related to episodic knowledge applied to resolution of diverse ambulances, and as this topic is
determinative to fnd and remember the best solutions quickly, additionally the authors compare it with
a code from other postgraduate students trying to implement an algorithm similar to logistics but using
a shufed frog leap algorithm.
Intelligent Tool for Decision
Making Associated
With Hospitalization
and Sandstorms for the
Optimization of Ambulances
Estrella D. Molina-Herrera
University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Luis Ernesto Cervera-Gómez
El Colegio de Chihuahua, Mexico
Carlos Herrera
University of Texas at El Paso, USA & El Paso VA Health Care System, USA