Agent.Hospital - agent-based open framework for clinical applications

Author

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

Author_Institution

Dept. of Econ. & Bus. Adm., Technische Univ. Ilmenau, Germany

fYear

2003

fDate

9-11 June 2003

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

41

Abstract

Agent.Hospital is an open agent-based (software) framework for distributed application in the healthcare domain. Previous appropriation of the Agent.Hospital development is application and examination of agent technology in realistic business scenarios and the identification of further research needs. This paper introduces the framework developed by the German Priority Research Program 1083. We describe the initial system concept, currently implemented or specified functionalities and the integration of FIPA standardization activities. The example scenario "clinical trials" illustrates how Agent.Hospital supports distributed clinical processes as well as further research of agent technology.

Keywords

cooperative systems; distributed processing; medical expert systems; Agent.Hospital; FIPA standardization; German Priority Research Program 1083; agent-based open framework; clinical applications; distributed application; distributed clinical processes; healthcare domain; Application software; Artificial intelligence; Computer science; Environmental economics; Intelligent agent; Logistics; Medical services; Software agents; Software systems; Standardization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 2003. WET ICE 2003. Proceedings. Twelfth IEEE International Workshops on

ISSN

1080-1383

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1963-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ENABL.2003.1231379

Filename

1231379