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A Swarm Based Algorithm for a Healthcare Information System

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Highlights of Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complexity: The PAAMS Collection (PAAMS 2018)

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This paper introduces H-finder, a bio-inspired algorithm to build a decentralized and self-organized P2P information system in healthcare environment. The algorithm takes advantage of the properties of ant systems, in which a number of entities perform simple operations at the local level and an advanced form of “intelligence” emerges at global level. The work of ant-inspired agents is exploited to organize “metadata”, that is, documents containing healthcare information, like Electronic Health Records (EHR), in a network of clinical servers. Agents travel the P2P interconnections among servers and spatially sort metadata in order to organize similar metadata into neighbor hosts. Preliminary performance analysis proves that the proposed algorithm allows the healthcare information to be useful reorganized thus improving the data management.

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  1. CNR - ICAR, Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking, NationalResearch Council of Italy, Via Pietro Bucci, 7/11 C, 87036, Rende, CS, Italy

    Agostino Forestiero

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Javier Bajo

  2. Departamento de Informática y Automática, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado

  3. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

    Elena María Navarro Martínez

  4. TECNALIA, Derio, Spain

    Eneko Osaba Icedo

  5. Lille University of Science and Technology, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

    Philippe Mathieu

  6. Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

    Patrycja Hoffa-Dąbrowska

  7. Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Elena del Val

  8. Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

    Sylvain Giroux

  9. University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Antonio J.M. Castro

  10. Rio de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Nayat Sánchez-Pi

  11. Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Vicente Julián

  12. Informatica e Estatistica, Universidade Federal de Santa Catar, Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

    Ricardo Azambuja Silveira

  13. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain

    Alberto Fernández

  14. ICB, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

    Rainer Unland

  15. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Rubén Fuentes-Fernández

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Forestiero, A. (2018). A Swarm Based Algorithm for a Healthcare Information System. In: Bajo, J., et al. Highlights of Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complexity: The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 887. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94779-2_43

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