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Supporting Medical Emergencies by MAS

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Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA 2009)

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In the emerging field of m-Health, advanced applications provide healthcare to people anywhere, anytime using broadband and wireless communications, as well as mobile computing devices. The notion of Service-Oriented Multi-Agent Systems (SOMAS) that has recently been proposed appears to adequately capture the requirements of applications in this field. The THOMAS abstract architecture and software platform supports the construction of SOMAS around an organisational metaphor. In this paper we present an application prototype built on top of THOMAS for a real-world mHealth scenario: mobile medical emergency management in an urban area.

The present work has been partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, grants TIN2006-14630-C03-02 (FPI grants program) and CSD2007-00022 (CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010).

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  1. Centre for Intelligent Information Technologies (CETINIA), University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

    Roberto Centeno, Moser Fagundes, Holger Billhardt & Sascha Ossowski

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  1. Department of Computer and Systems Science, Stockholm University, Forum 100, 164 40, Kista, Sweden

    Anne Håkansson

  2. Institute of Informatics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Str. Janiszweskiego 11/17, 50-370, Wroclaw, Poland

    Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

  3. Department of Computer Science, Franklin University, 201 South Grant Ave., 43215, Columbus, Ohio, USA

    Ronald L. Hartung

  4. School of Environment and Technology, Centre for SMART Systems, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

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

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Centeno, R., Fagundes, M., Billhardt, H., Ossowski, S. (2009). Supporting Medical Emergencies by MAS. In: Håkansson, A., Nguyen, N.T., Hartung, R.L., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications. KES-AMSTA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5559. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01665-3_83

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