INTCARE: multi-agent approach for real-time intelligent decision support in intensive medicine

For an Intelligent Decision Support System to work in real-time, it is of great value the use of intelligent agents that cooperate with each other to accomplish their tasks. In a critical environment like an Intensive Care Unit, doctors should have the right information, at the right time, to better...

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Main Author: Santos, Manuel Filipe (author)
Other Authors: Portela, Filipe (author), Vilas-Boas, Marta (author)
Format: conferencePaper
Language:eng
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/15546
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/15546
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Summary:For an Intelligent Decision Support System to work in real-time, it is of great value the use of intelligent agents that cooperate with each other to accomplish their tasks. In a critical environment like an Intensive Care Unit, doctors should have the right information, at the right time, to better assist their patients. In this paper we present an architecture for a Multi-Agents System that will support doctors’ decision by in real-time, guaranteeing that all required clinical data is available and capable of predicting the patients’ condition for the next hour.