Applications of Software Agent Technology in the Health Care Domain


Book Description

This volume contains a collection of papers that provides a unique, novel and up-to-date overview of how software agents technology is being applied in very diverse problems in health care, ranging from community care to management of organ transplants. It also provides an introductory survey that highlights the main issues to be taken into account when deploying agents in the health care area. The intended audience includes graduate and postgraduate students specializing in artificial intelligence and researchers interested in the application of new technologies.




Applications of Software Agent Technology in the Health Care Domain


Book Description

This volume contains a collection of papers that provides a unique, novel and up-to-date overview of how software agents technology is being applied in very diverse problems in health care, ranging from community care to management of organ transplants. It also provides an introductory survey that highlights the main issues to be taken into account when deploying agents in the health care area. The intended audience includes graduate and postgraduate students specializing in artificial intelligence and researchers interested in the application of new technologies.




Agent Technology and e-Health


Book Description

Multi-agent systems are one of the most exciting research areas in Artificial Intelligence. This book reports on the results achieved in this area, discusses the benefits (and drawbacks) that agent-based systems may bring to medical domains and society, and also provides a list of the research topics that should be tackled in the near future to make the deployment of health-care agent-based systems a reality. Current topics of research include communication and co-operation between distributed intelligent agents to manage patient care.




Applications of Software Agent Technology in the Health Care Domain


Book Description

This volume contains a collection of papers that provides a unique, novel and up-to-date overview of how software agents technology is being applied in very diverse problems in health care, ranging from community care to management of organ transplants. It also provides an introductory survey that highlights the main issues to be taken into account when deploying agents in the health care area.




Applications of Intelligent Technologies in Healthcare


Book Description

This book covers topics related to medical practices from communications technology point of view. The book provides detailed inside information about the use of health informatics and emerging technologies for the well-being of patients. Each chapter in this book focuses on a specific development in the use of informatics in healthcare. In general, each chapter uses various emerging technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, Cloud computing, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN), for various health-related illness, such as tuberculosis, heart diseases, asthma and various epidemic outbreaks. The book is intended both for communications engineers with a healthcare focus and medical researchers.




Agents and Multi-Agent Systems for Health Care


Book Description

This book contains revised and extended selected papers from two workshops: the 10th International Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care, A2HC 2017, held at the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2017, held in São Paulo, Brazil, in May 2017, and the International Workshop on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems for AAL and e-Health, A-HEALTH 2017, held at the 15th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2017, in Porto, Portugal, in June 2017. The 9 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. They feature current research topics such as personalised health systems for remote and autonomous tele-assistance, communication and co-operation between distributed intelligent agents to manage patient care, information agents that retrieve medical information from distributed repositories, intelligent and distributed data mining, and multi-agent systems that assist the doctors in the tasks of monitoring, decision support and diagnosis.




Quality Assurance of Agent-Based and Self-Managed Systems


Book Description

The challenges in implementing intelligent and autonomous software systems remain the development of self-adapting systems, self-healing applications, corporate global creation, and collaborated robotic teams. With software agent technology widely recognized as a key approach in implementing such global infrastructure, the importance of the role of




Computational Intelligence Aided Systems for Healthcare Domain


Book Description

This book covers recent advances in artificial intelligence, smart computing, and their applications in augmenting medical and health care systems. It will serve as an ideal reference text for graduate students and academic researchers in diverse engineering fields including electrical, electronics and communication, computer, and biomedical. This book: Presents architecture, characteristics, and applications of artificial intelligence and smart computing in health care systems Highlights privacy issues faced in health care and health informatics using artificial intelligence and smart computing technologies Discusses nature-inspired computing algorithms for the brain-computer interface Covers graph neural network application in the medical domain Provides insights into the state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and smart computing enabling and emerging technologies This book discusses recent advances and applications of artificial intelligence and smart technologies in the field of healthcare. It highlights privacy issues faced in health care and health informatics using artificial intelligence and smart computing technologies. It covers nature-inspired computing algorithms such as genetic algorithms, particle swarm optimization algorithms, and common scrambling algorithms to study brain-computer interfaces. It will serve as an ideal reference text for graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics and communication engineering, computer engineering, and biomedical engineering.




Data-Centric AI Solutions and Emerging Technologies in the Healthcare Ecosystem


Book Description

The book offers insight into the healthcare system by exploring emerging technologies and AI-based applications and implementation strategies. It includes current developments for future directions as well as covering the concept of the healthcare system along with its ecosystem. Data-Centric AI Solutions and Emerging Technologies in the Healthcare Ecosystem focuses on the mechanisms of proposing and incorporating solutions along with architectural concepts, design principles, smart solutions, decision-making process, and intelligent predictions. It offers state-of-the-art approaches for overall innovations, developments, and implementation of the smart healthcare ecosystem and highlights medical signal and image processing algorithms, healthcare-based computer vision systems, and discusses explainable AI (XAI) techniques for healthcare. This book will be useful to researchers involved in AI, IoT, Data, and emerging technologies in the medical industry. It is also suitable as supporting material for undergraduate and graduate-level courses in related engineering disciplines.




Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Social Good. The PAAMS Collection


Book Description

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2021, held in Salamanca, Spain, in October 2021. The 27 regular and 13 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. They deal with the application and validation of agent-based models, methods, and technologies in a number of key applications areas, including: advanced models and learning, agent-based programming, decision-making, education and social interactions, formal and theoretic models, health and safety, mobility and the city, swarms and task allocation.