A Conceptual Modeling Framework for Multi-agent Information Systems

2000 ◽  
pp. 295-308
Author(s):  
Ricardo M. Bastos ◽  
José Palazzo M. de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Conceptual Modeling ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
Multi Agent

INFLUENCE OF PERSONAL COMMUNICATION NETWORKS ON INNOVATION ADOPTION — USING MULTI-AGENT SIMULATIONS TO PROJECT THE LAUNCH OF AN INNOVATIVE MEDICAL DEVICE

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (05) ◽  
pp. 1340021 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTIAN BARROT ◽  
JAN KUHLMANN ◽  
ANDREA POPA
Keyword(s):  
Medical Device ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
Market Penetration ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
Multi Agent

Adoption processes are often heavily influenced by interpersonal communication. Marketing managers are increasingly trying to use these relationships to foster the market penetration of their products. In an empirical study of the US market for an innovative medical device, we survey the social network of (mostly chief) anesthetists from 151 hospitals. We confirm the influences from personal communication on individual adoption decisions through hazard regressions. We then use a multi-agent modeling framework trying to identify what seeding strategies would have been optimal to achieve a fast market penetration, i.e. which and how many anesthetists should be selected to initiate personal communication processes.

scholarly journals Interoperability in Healthcare

2017 ◽  
pp. 689-714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciana Cardoso ◽  
Fernando Marins ◽  
César Quintas ◽  
Filipe Portela ◽  
Manuel Santos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Patient Information ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Quality Of Healthcare ◽  
High Availability ◽  
Heterogeneous Information ◽  
Multi Agent

With the advancement of technology, patient information has been being computerized in order to facilitate the work of healthcare professionals and improve the quality of healthcare delivery. However, there are many heterogeneous information systems that need to communicate, sharing information and making it available when and where it is needed. To respond to this requirement the Agency for Integration, Diffusion, and Archiving of medical information (AIDA) was created, a multi-agent and service-based platform that ensures interoperability among healthcare information systems. In order to improve the performance of the platform, beyond the SWOT analysis performed, a system to prevent failures that may occur in the platform database and also in machines where the agents are executed was created. The system has been implemented in the Centro Hospitalar do Porto (one of the major Portuguese hospitals), and it is now possible to define critical workload periods of AIDA, improving high availability and load balancing. This is explored in this chapter.

Towards a conceptual modeling framework for construction simulation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Adel Abdelmegid ◽  
Vicente A. Gonzalez ◽  
Ashkan M. Naraghi ◽  
Michael O'Sullivan ◽  
Cameron G. Walker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Modeling ◽  
Construction Simulation ◽  
Modeling Framework
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