The organ allocation process: A natural extension of the Carrel agent-mediated electronic institution

AI Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 153-165

  Vázquez Salceda, Javier ^a   Cortés, Ulises ^a   Padget, Julian ^b   López Navidad, Antonio ^c   Caballero, Francisco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

E health; Institutions; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES; HEALTH CARE; SOFTWARE AGENTS; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL); TRANSPLANTS;

ELECTRONIC INSTITUTION; ORGAN ALLOCATION PROCESS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0347537811     PISSN: 09217126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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