Applications of Software Agent Technology in the Health Care Domain

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Agents in Health Care

   • John Fox

   Pages 1-2

3. Agent-Based Applications in Health Care

   • John Nealon, Antonio Moreno

   Pages 3-18

4. Building an Agent-Based Community Care Demonstrator on a Worldwide Agent Platform

   • Martin Beer, Richard Hill, Andrew Sixsmith

   Pages 19-34

5. Agent-Based User Interface Adaptivity in a Medical Decision Support System

   • Sue Greenwood, John Nealon, Peter Marshall

   Pages 35-47

6. GruSMA1: Experience on the Deployment of Agent-Based Health Care Services

   • Antonio Moreno, Aïda Valls, David Isern, David Sánchez

   Pages 49-65

7. Agent.Hospital — a Framework for Clinical Applications in Agentcities

   • Stefan Kirn, Christian Heine, Rainer Herrler, Karl-Heinz Krempels

   Pages 67-85

8. OntHoS — an Ontology for Hospital Scenarios

   • Marc Becker, Christian Heine, Rainer Herrler, Karl-Heinz Krempels

   Pages 87-103

9. Agent-Based Up-to-date Data Management in National electronic Library for Communicable Disease

   • Patty Kostkova, Jane Mani-Saada, Gemma Madle, Julius Weinberg

   Pages 105-124

10. Wound Care Documentation in Municipal Elderly Care

    • Hans Kyhlbäck, Hannes Persson

    Pages 125-141

11. An Agent-Based Intelligent Tutoring System for Nurse Education

    • Marjan Hospers, Erna Kroezen, Anton Nijholt, Rieks op den Akker, Dirk Heylen

    Pages 143-159

12. Carrel: Secure Deployment of an Agent—Based Health Care Application

    • David Cabanillas, Javier Vàzquez-Salceda, Steven Willmott, Ulises Cortés, Dammien Bouissou

    Pages 161-179

13. Assisting the Spanish Organ Transplant Coordination Process with Multi-Agent Systems

    • Aïda Valls, Antonio Moreno

    Pages 181-197

14. A Multi-Agent System for Organ Transplant Management

    • Monique Calisti, Petra Funk, Sven Biellman, Thomas Bugnon

    Pages 199-212

Agent Cities [4] is an ambitious project whose main aim is the construction of a worldwide, publicly accessible network of agent-based FIPA platforms!. In March 2003 there are around 50 active platforms. Each of them supports agents that offer services similar to those that can be found in a real city (facilities, amenities, attractions, information and commercial services). It is expected that, in the near future, it will be possible to implement intelligent complex compound services (e.g. agents that are able to help a user to plan a weekend away, including tasks such as booking air tickets, selecting and booking a room in an appropriate hotel, buying tickets for the theatre and reserving a table in a restaurant that is near the theatre and offers the user's favourite meal). The main aim of our work was to develop a set of agents that could offer to the citizens and visitors of a city not the usual leisure-oriented services but health-care related services. This interest is related with previous work that our research group had done in the last years in the application of AI techniques (especially agent-based technology) to the medical domain (see e.g. [6]). Therefore, we decided to design and implement a multi-agent system with the following features: • The user may request information about all the medical centres available in a particular geographical area.

• Applied AgentTechnology
• Artificial Intelligence
• Health Care Administration
• Health Informatics
• Management
• decision support system
• intelligence
• multi-agent system
• ontology
• software agent

• Computer Science and Mathematics Department, University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

  Antonio Moreno

• Department of Computing, Oxford Brookes University, Wheatley Oxford, UK

  John L. Nealon

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