Intelligent agents technology applied to tasks scheduling and communications management in a critical care telemonitoring system

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 760-773

  Dafonte Vázquez, José Carlos ^a   Castro Martínez, Alfonso ^a   Gómez, Angel ^a   Arcay Varela, Bernardino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Communications QoS; Critical care; HIS; Intelligent agents; Telemonitoring

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; GRAPH THEORY; PATIENT MONITORING; REAL TIME CONTROL; SCHEDULING; TELEMEDICINE;

BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT; COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT; CRITICAL CARE; TELEMONITORING;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL; COMPUTER NETWORK; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS TECHNOLOGY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KNOWLEDGE BASE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMONITORING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 34047149874     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2006.06.016     Document Type: Article

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