Is it an Agent, or Just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents
ECAI '96 Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Agents III, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
Approaches to fault-tolerant and transactional mobile agent execution---an algorithmic view
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Developing Multi-Agent Systems with JADE (Wiley Series in Agent Technology)
Developing Multi-Agent Systems with JADE (Wiley Series in Agent Technology)
Mobile medical diagnosis: an m-health initiative through service continuity in B3G
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IFIP/USENIX international conference on Middleware companion
A pervasive architectural framework for providing remote medical treatment
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
Agent-based patient admission scheduling in hospitals
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: industrial track
Enhancing E-health information systems with agent technology
International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications - Special issue on electronic health
An architecture for adaptive intelligent systems
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent agent based hospital search & appointment system
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Interaction Sciences: Information Technology, Culture and Human
Agent-Based Simulation of Healthcare for Type II Diabetes
SIMUL '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Second International Conference on Advances in System Simulation
A Mobile Phone-Based Antenatal Care Support System
ICSENG '11 Proceedings of the 2011 21st International Conference on Systems Engineering
International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications
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Various areas of the healthcare industry have seen some progress in the use of ICT to aid in the treatment of patients including some amount of automation in the key areas. The authors infer that some pitfalls exist in the healthcare administration. To obviate these, the use of Agent technology as a practical solution to solve some hospital related issues with particular emphasis on hospital search and appointment allocation has been researched. The authors explore the use of agent technology to assist patients seeking treatment for their ailment at a hospital chosen, and priority is provided based on treatment. The patients have been given the facility to select an appropriate hospital based on their preferred selection criterion, achieved through the use of their mobile phone by exactly replicating the job of a human being agent. The authors study first how smart agents can be used to search for hospitals based on user selection criteria in combination with the Google Map facility and fairly diagnose their medical ailments using Layman language. The Agent proposed here, also facilitates verification of doctor's license before the appointment with him is confirmed. Lastly, the proposed system provides the rating and the popularity factors of the selected hospital in respect of ailment based and on number of persons visited. The system also alerts the hospital for poor rating/popularity enabling working towards improvement. The Smart agents proposed for action act autonomously and have the ability to intelligently use the available knowledgebase and user parameters to make appropriate decisions on behalf of the user. The system uses ANDROID 2.2, JADE-LEAP and the Google API to provide a robust, user friendly solution.