An Ontology Driven Multi-Agent Approach to Integrated e-Health Systems

One aim of an integrated e-Health system is to improve the quality of healthcare by providing transparent access to patient information. The current health information management environment has numerous systems with varying techniques for representing and managing patient data. The increasing mobility of patients results in patient information being spread across these systems. Presented in this paper is a conceptual architecture for the interoperability of e-Health systems. This architecture uses multiple cooperating software agents that actively access, recognize, and associate the information in distributed, heterogeneous e-health systems. Using a layered ontology structure we show how ontology based multi-agent systems can be used to resolve discrepancies in terminology and/or structure. This involves a case study in a distributed Electronic Health Record (EHR) environment.

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Interoperability in Healthcare

Health Care Delivery and Clinical Science ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-3926-1.ch036 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 689-714 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Luciana Cardoso ◽

Fernando Marins ◽

César Quintas ◽

Filipe Portela ◽

Manuel Santos ◽

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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.

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Architecture to Embed Software Agents in Resource Constrained Internet of Things Devices

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s19010100 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 100 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Daniel H. De La Iglesia ◽

Gabriel Villarrubia González ◽

André Sales Mendes ◽

Diego Jiménez-Bravo ◽

Alberto L. Barriuso

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Urban Environments ◽

Multi Agent Systems ◽

Intelligent Environments ◽

Sensing Systems ◽

The Future ◽

Multi Agent ◽

Intelligent Information

Sensing systems in combination with treatment tools and intelligent information management are the basis on which the cities and urban environments of the future will be built. Progress in the research and development of these new and intelligent scenarios is essential to achieve the objectives of efficiency, integration, sustainability, and quality of life for people who live in cities. To achieve these objectives, it is essential to investigate the development of cheaper, more accurate, and smarter hardware devices, which will form the basis of the intelligent environments of the future. This article focuses on an approach based on intelligent multi-agent systems that are integrated into basic hardware devices for the Internet of Things (IoT). A multi-agent architecture is proposed for the fast, efficient, and intelligent management of the generated data. A layer of services adapted to the needs of the new intelligent environments is built on this architecture. With the aim of validating this architecture, a case study based on electric vehicles of the e-bike type is proposed.

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Interoperability in Healthcare

Cloud Computing Applications for Quality Health Care Delivery - Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Administration ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-6118-9.ch005 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 78-101 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

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.

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Designing Multi-Agent Systems from Logic Specifications

Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Agent Technology, and Collaborative Applications - Advances in Intelligent Information Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-144-5.ch001 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1-27

Author(s):

Hong Lin

Keyword(s):

Information Management ◽

Management System ◽

Predicate Logic ◽

Information Management System ◽

Multi Agent Systems ◽

Agent Systems ◽

First Order ◽

Multi Agent ◽

Program Construction

In this chapter a program construction method based on ?-Calculus is proposed. The problem to be solved is specified by first-order predicate logic and a semantic verification program is constructed directly from the specification. We exploit this method in synthesizing the architectural specifications of multi-agent systems (MAS) in ?-Calculus based on the logic specifications of the MAS. By enabling the transformation from the logic specifications to operational specifications of MAS, this method allows the design of the MAS to be focused on the architectural definition level. It benefits the development of MAS by enabling logic deduction on behaviors of the MAS, and a design methodology in an incremental fashion. We present this method by a case study of designing a course information management system.

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A Programming Approach to Collective Autonomy

Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks ◽

10.3390/jsan10020027 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 27

Author(s):

Roberto Casadei ◽

Gianluca Aguzzi ◽

Mirko Viroli

Keyword(s):

Autonomous Vehicles ◽

Autonomic Computing ◽

Autonomous Agents ◽

Programming Approach ◽

Multi Agent Systems ◽

Agent Systems ◽

Multi Agent ◽

Simulated Case ◽

Complex Settings

Research and technology developments on autonomous agents and autonomic computing promote a vision of artificial systems that are able to resiliently manage themselves and autonomously deal with issues at runtime in dynamic environments. Indeed, autonomy can be leveraged to unburden humans from mundane tasks (cf. driving and autonomous vehicles), from the risk of operating in unknown or perilous environments (cf. rescue scenarios), or to support timely decision-making in complex settings (cf. data-centre operations). Beyond the results that individual autonomous agents can carry out, a further opportunity lies in the collaboration of multiple agents or robots. Emerging macro-paradigms provide an approach to programming whole collectives towards global goals. Aggregate computing is one such paradigm, formally grounded in a calculus of computational fields enabling functional composition of collective behaviours that could be proved, under certain technical conditions, to be self-stabilising. In this work, we address the concept of collective autonomy, i.e., the form of autonomy that applies at the level of a group of individuals. As a contribution, we define an agent control architecture for aggregate multi-agent systems, discuss how the aggregate computing framework relates to both individual and collective autonomy, and show how it can be used to program collective autonomous behaviour. We exemplify the concepts through a simulated case study, and outline a research roadmap towards reliable aggregate autonomy.

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Exploring management strategies for community-based forests using multi-agent systems: A case study in Palawan, Philippines

Journal of Environmental Management ◽

10.1016/j.jenvman.2009.06.016 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 90 (11) ◽

pp. 3607-3615 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Paolo C. Campo ◽

Guillermo A. Mendoza ◽

Philippe Guizol ◽

Teodoro R. Villanueva ◽

François Bousquet

Keyword(s):

Management Strategies ◽

Multi Agent Systems ◽

Community Based ◽

Agent Systems ◽

Multi Agent

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MEASURING SPATIAL HEALTHCARE FACILITIES ACCESSIBILITY USING TWO-STEP FLOATING CATCHMENT ANALYSIS (2SFCA) (Case Study: Cianjur Regency, Indonesia)

Seminar Nasional Geomatika ◽

10.24895/sng.2020.0-0.1115 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 11

Author(s):

Muhamad Iqbal Januadi Putra ◽

Nabila Dety Novia Utami

Keyword(s):

Travel Time ◽

Quality Of Healthcare ◽

Healthcare Services ◽

Spatial Accessibility ◽

Healthcare Facilities ◽

Spatial Disparities ◽

Time Threshold

The presence of healthcare facilities is quite essential to provide good healthcare services in a particular area, however, the existence of healthcare facilities is not evenly distributed in Cianjur Regency. This condition leads to the disparities of healthcare facilities across the Cianjur Regency. In this paper, we aim to measure and map the spatial disparities of healthcare facilities using a Two-Step Floating Catchment Analysis (2SFCA). This method can calculate the magnitude of spatial accessibility for healthcare facilities by formulating the travel time threshold and the quality of healthcare facilities across the study area. This research shows the result that the spatial accessibility of healthcare facilities in the Cianjur Regency is not evenly distributed across the districts. The spatial accessibility value resulted from 2SFCA is ranging from 0- 3.97. A low value indicates low spatial accessibility, while a higher value shows good accessibility. The majority of districts in the Cianjur Regency have the spatial accessibility value 0-0.5 (86%). Meanwhile, only a few have the higher value; value 0.5-0.99 as much as 6.6%, 0.99-1.49 as 3.3%, and 3.48-3.97 has a percentage of 3.3%. Also, this analysis results in the cluster of good spatial accessibility in healthcare facilities, namely the Pagelaran District and Cipanas District. Interestingly, the downtown of Cianjur Regency has lower spatial accessibility compared to both areas.

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Improving Information management in resource as a service framework using gamification technique: a case study in Institut Pendidikan Guru Malaysia

International Journal of Engineering & Technology ◽

10.14419/ijet.v7i2.14.11159 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (2.14) ◽

pp. 70

Author(s):

M Nordin A Rahman ◽

WM Khairi ◽

W Awang

Keyword(s):

Competitive Advantage ◽

Information Management ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Storage Management ◽

Quality Of Services ◽

Management Process ◽

Different Types ◽

Service Framework

The issue of information management is crucial for any academic institution. Convenient access to requested content is creating a competitive advantage for different types of decisions. Information management process in Institut Pendidikan Guru (IPG) often create problems because there is no systematic way of storage management. IPG lecturers stored their teaching materials in different kind of methods. This situation cause in a loss of resources, difficult to retrieve and also cannot be identified when it's needed. Dealing with large volumes of resources it is essential to use technological solutions that enable flexible storage, retrieval, processing and interpreting information. To solve the problems, this article introduced a framework that use single platform and named as Information Sharing for Learning (IS4L) for managing teaching and learning resources in IPG. The resources will be stored and can be accessed at any time. The framework also applied the technique of gamification to motivate and encourage users to use the application and consequently will increase the volume of resources stored. The developed application based on the proposed framework could help to motivate and engage peoples to share their resources and enhance quality of services in IPG. Finally it could assist to improve the performance and effectiveness of services to achieve users’ satisfaction.

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