Why software agents can be effective in biomedical sciences

Authors:
Giuliano Armano
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical and Electronical Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy. E-mail: armano@diee.unica.it
Venue:
Multiagent and Grid Systems - Multi-agent systems for medicine, computational biology, and bioinformatics
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Nowadays most of the software systems, tools, and applications in biomedical sciences are very complex and require high flexibility. Seemingly, it is difficult to identify a common underlying technology. In fact, each specific research field imposes its own constraints on the corresponding solutions. Nevertheless, at least from a software engineering perspective, the agent technology appears to fit the requirements imposed by such different research fields and encompasses most of the biomedical systems, tools, and applications in a unifying framework.