Hospital Room Management for Covid-19 Patients Using Petri Nets

ABSTRACT

This paper treat the design of the sequence organization and then the optimization of a discrete event system (DES) modelled by Temporal Petri Net (T-PN) comprising a set of specifications corresponding to time intervals to activate or access another event. A Petri net is a well-known model that describes distributed systems. It is commonly used to describe various aspects of distributed systems, such as choice and synchronization. This paper focuses on the organizing problems in the hospitalization domain during the Covid-19 pandemic. We advocate the use of a real time approach based on TemporalPN and mathematical modeling to help drive the healthcare system in the face of occurrence of this type of giving many patients currently, which requires rethinking the predictive decision. The proposed solution permits to optimize the time to find all empty rooms using PN Temporal and the Dijkstra approach. © 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.