InfoSleuth: agent-based semantic integration of information in open and dynamic environments
SIGMOD '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Agents for information gathering
Software agents
Intelligent information agents: review and challenges for distributed information sources
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Gathering the right information at the right time
Enterprise information systems
Hospital Information Systems: The Next Generation
Hospital Information Systems: The Next Generation
Networked Multimedia for Medical Imaging
IEEE MultiMedia
Distributed Intelligent Agents
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
Agents for Hypermedia Information Discovery
CIA '98 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents II, Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet
Remote Control Multi-Agent System for u-Healthcare Service
KES-AMSTA '07 Proceedings of the 1st KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications
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Hospital information infrastructures integrate today complex mosaics of heterogeneous systems, often dependent on legacy systems. The integration of disparate information sources in healthcare is an essential effort since physicians, and other hospital personnel, use to analyze and combine data provided by different sources distributed along the hospital facilities. Day-after- -day their needs for effective means and tools to support such integration of data increase significantly. In order to fulfill such requirements we designed and developed an extensible multi-agent system that physicians may use to access multiple medical data sources available at the hospital, in a transparent way. This paper presents an overall description of the system giving special attention to its architecture and community of software agents. The agents were specially planned for clinical information gathering, cleaning, integration and presentation in healthcare environments.