A framework for building cooperative software agents in medical applications

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 223-249

  Lanzola, Giordano ^a   Gatti, Luca ^a   Falasconi, Sabina ^a   Stefanelli, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cooperating knowledge based systems; Distributed artificial intelligence; Distributed health care; Hospital information systems; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

COOPERATIVE SOFTWARE AGENTS; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0032976648     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0933-3657(99)00008-1     Document Type: Article

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