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Multi-agents for Decision Support

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This paper gives an overview of agents and its importance in various applications for decision support. A brief description of a typology of agent standards, and relevant technologies in health care are summarized. A summary of our current research work conducted at the Medical Informatics research laboratory on multi-agent architecture is presented. Results from a multi-agent prototype developed for scheduling meetings is discussed and how the architecture can be extended to model health care management for chronic ailments is briefly presented.

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  1. University of Canberra, Australia

    Manoj Achuthan, Bala Balachandran & Dharmendra Sharma

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  1. KES International, 2nd Floor, 145-157 St John Street, EC1V 4PY, London, United Kingdom

    Mircea Gh. Negoita

  2. Centre for SMART systems Engineering Research Centre, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, 5095, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Achuthan, M., Balachandran, B., Sharma, D. (2004). Multi-agents for Decision Support. In: Negoita, M.G., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3214. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30133-2_61

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