Web Services for Cooperative Management
Ouahrani Leila, Alimazighi Zaia
Progress in Computing Applications, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2012.
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Link: http://www.dline.info/pca/fulltext/v1n1/5.pdf
Abstract:
A rigorous management of pharmaceuticals is directly related to a countryâ€™s ability to address public health concerns. The problem of management of pharmaceutical stocks in health systems is of great importance in a context of scarce resources, increasing medicines demand and inciting control costs. Because medicines are resources so important and so limited, ways must be developed to improve their supply and their costs. In this paper, we propose to explore an uncoupled approach: agents and web services for cooperative management of pharmaceutical stocks to minimize costs within the maintaining quality and continuity of care. A cooperative management based on an agent paradigm, is proposed and articulated around Resource Agents and Federator Agents and allows each site to store an optimal quantity and to avoid over-storage or under-storage of medicines. We use, as technological framework, Web Services which make applications possible to expose their functionalities through standardized interfaces using agents.