Agent Technology and e-Health

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Annicchiarico, Roberta (Editor), Cortés, Ulises (Editor), Urdiales, Cristina (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2008.
• Series: Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer organization.; Artificial intelligence.; Application software.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.; Computer Applications.

Multi-agent systems are one of the most exciting research areas in Artificial Intelligence. In the last ten years there has been a growing interest in the application of agent-based systems in health care. Moreover, a growing European community of researchers interested in the application of intelli...

Table of Contents:

• Agents and Healthcare: Usability and Acceptance
• On the Implementation of HealthAgents: Agent-Based Brain Tumour Diagnosis
• SAPHIRE: A Multi-Agent System for Remote Healthcare Monitoring through Computerized Clinical Guidelines
• EU PROVENANCE Project: An Open Provenance Architecture for Distributed Applications
• Argumentation-Based Agents to Increase Human Organ Availability for Transplant
• K4Care: Knowledge-Based Homecare e-Services for an Ageing Europe
• Supported Human Autonomy for Recovery and Enhancement of Cognitive and Motor Abilities Using Agent Technologies
• Agents and Healthcare: A Glance to the Future.