Deploying an agent-based architecture for the management of community care

  • Authors:
  • Martin D. Beer;Richard Hill;Andrew Sixsmith

  • Affiliations:
  • Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom;Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom;University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper describes a project designed to show how a global multi-agent architecture can be used to support care in the community. Services in this area are notoriously difficult to coordinate with the direct and indirect involvement of a large number of independent, autonomous agencies, each of which has its own priorities and aspirations. Also, by the very nature of the services provided the caring community is highly mobile and distributed making the collection and dissemination of information extremely difficult. The Integrated Community Care (INCA) project has been designed to show how multi-agent technology can be used to address some of these issues.