While modulated arc (mARC) capabilities have been available on Siemens linear accelerators for almost two years now, there was, until recently, only one treatment planning system capable of planning these treatments. The Eclipse treatment planning system now offers a module that can plan for mARC treatments. The purpose of this work was to test the module to determine whether it is capable of c...

Automation of the re-planning process is an activity of immense importance in production planning systems. We introduce a novel perspective on production planning through substituting classical scheduling and planning mechanism with the process of job delegation and responsibility negotiation among information units – agents of a multi-agent systems. The article comments on various causes and m...