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There is a steady increase of number of people who are suffering from lifestyle-related diseases. Although much work has been done on healthcare support system, these existing systems are limited in ability of healthcare support service. This paper proposes an agent-based framework for advanced healthcare support system. In order to provide useful information for healthcare of an object person, not only to him/herself but also to the related people of that person, the system needs to acquire variety of information, knowledge, data, etc. and store/manage them in a systematic manner. This paper mainly focuses on the concept and design of the system, and also we describe the implementation details of several functions for the healthcare.
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Takahashi, H., Izumi, S., Suganuma, T., Kinoshita, T., Shiratori, N. (2009). An Agent-Based Framework for Healthcare Support System. In: Yang, JJ., Yokoo, M., Ito, T., Jin, Z., Scerri, P. (eds) Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5925. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11161-7_33
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