Applying Agent Technology to Healthcare: The GruSMA Experience

Author

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

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. & Math. Dept., Univ. Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona

Volume

21

Issue

6

fYear

2006

Firstpage

63

Lastpage

67

Abstract

The Multiagent Systems Group (GruSMA) is part of the Research Group on Artificial Intelligence at Spain´s University Rovira i Virgili. GruSMA specializes in agent technology, working in application areas such as mobile devices, transportation and tourism user services, automated ontology construction, and agent-based simulation of complex systems. Over the past five years, GruSMA has designed and developed many agent applications to address healthcare problems. Some of these systems are academic, proof-of-concept exercises, but they point to the kind of problems in medicine that intelligent agents can help solve in the near term

Keywords

health care; medical information systems; multi-agent systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); GruSMA experience; Multiagent Systems Group; agent technology; agent-based simulation; automated ontology construction; healthcare problem; intelligent agents; mobile device; tourism user services; transportation; Access protocols; Character generation; Containers; Diseases; Guidelines; Intelligent agent; Intelligent systems; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Testing; agent technology; medical services;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Intelligent Systems, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1541-1672

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIS.2006.108

Filename

4042537