Title : 
Applying Multi-agent Systems Coordination to the Diabetic Healthcare Collaboration
         
        
            Author : 
Zhang, Peng ; Bai, Guohua ; Carlsson, Bengt ; Johansson, Stefan J.
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Diabetic healthcare is characterized by the collaboration problem, which is manifested by problems of accessibility and interoperability. To improve the problem situation, we propose a Multi-agent Systems approach. The interactions among the diabetic healthcare actors are categorized on three levels: collaboration, coordination, and communication. Agents are designed to work on the coordination and communication levels, and support the collaboration among human actors. This paper presents a project Integrated Mobile Information Systems for diabetic healthcare (IMIS) to demonstrate how to apply Multi-agent Systems coordination to the collaboration among healthcare actors.
         
        
            Keywords : 
diseases; health care; medical computing; multi-agent systems; open systems; Integrated Mobile Information Systems; accessibility; diabetic healthcare collaboration; interoperability; multi-agent systems coordination; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Databases; Diabetes; Information systems; Insulin; Medical services; Mobile communication; Multiagent systems; Sugar; Multi-agent Systems; collaboration; coordination; diabetic healthcare;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Information and Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications, 2008. ICTTA 2008. 3rd International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Damascus
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-1751-3
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-1752-0
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICTTA.2008.4529937