Multi-Agent Operating Theatre Management

At least one non-transitory computer readable medium for assigning surgical operations to operating rooms, the least one non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions for:

• obtaining, by multiple operating rooms managing agents (ORAMs), roles and assignment preferences of parties that are represented by the multiple ORAMs, wherein the parties are associated with the surgical operations;
• and
• performing multiple sets of assignment iterations for assigning the surgical operations to the operating rooms;
• wherein each set of assignment iterations is executed by a set of ORAMs of the multiple ORAMs and comprises exchanging assignment messages without exposing an entirety of the assignment preferences of the parties represented by the set of ORAMs;
• and
• wherein some sub-sets of one or more sets of ORAMs differ from each other by type of cooperation.