The data abstraction layer as knowledge provider for a medical multi-agent system

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4924 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 87-100

  Batet, Montserrat ^a   Gibert, Karina ^b   Valls, Aida ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Home care; Knowledge engineering; Knowledge representation; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

DATA ABSTRACTION LAYER; HOME CARE; INTELLIGENT TREATMENT;

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 40249100248     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78624-5_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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