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Problem shape...

I'm a medical center.  I have an (out)patient in a clinic that  
needs medical services (like a chest X-ray, a blood draw for  
laboratory tests, a consultation with a physician, and an EKG).  I  
have locations where specified services can be performed.  I have  
staff people certified to provide specified services.  I can  
perform a certain volume of each service per unit time.  Each  
service may interact with other services in relationships such as  
prerequisite, postrequisite, result conflict (i.e., service A's  
performance invalidates service B's result if A is performed during  
specified time period relative to B).  For each patient's set of  
ordered services, I want a computer to build, say, an itinerary  
including location, date, time, and service provider.

Solution?

The solution appears amenable to knowledge-based systems, no?  If  
so, where can I find a body of work that describes algorithms for  
solution to such a problem?

Thanks