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There are various software applications that are highly suited for development using agent technology. Typically these applications take advantage of some of the intrinsic qualities of agents that include: autonomy, reactivity/proactivity, group-action, and/or mobility. On the other hand, there are many parallels between Agent Systems and Peer-to-Peer Systems allowing the latter to be employed in similar problem domains. This paper presents an agent application in the health care record management domain and then examines how such a system might also be implemented as a Peer-to-Peer System. The management of health care records is in itself a novel use of Mobile Agent technology and in order to understand the Agent System Dynamics, the system is simulated using a limited number of agents and agent platforms; as well as being modeled mathematically. The Peer-to-Peer system is also simulated and modeled mathematically demonstrating a number of behaviors that are similar across both systems.
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Tse, B., Paranjape, R., Joseph, S.R.H. (2008). Information Flow Analysis in Autonomous Agent and Peer-to-Peer Systems for Self-organizing Electronic Health Records. In: Joseph, S., Despotovic, Z., Moro, G., Bergamaschi, S. (eds) Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing. AP2PC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4461. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79705-0_1
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