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An Agent-Based Framework for Healthcare Support System

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Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2009)

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There is a steady increase of number of people who are suffering from lifestyle-related diseases. Although much work has been done on healthcare support system, these existing systems are limited in ability of healthcare support service. This paper proposes an agent-based framework for advanced healthcare support system. In order to provide useful information for healthcare of an object person, not only to him/herself but also to the related people of that person, the system needs to acquire variety of information, knowledge, data, etc. and store/manage them in a systematic manner. This paper mainly focuses on the concept and design of the system, and also we describe the implementation details of several functions for the healthcare.

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  1. Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University,  

    Hideyuki Takahashi, Satoru Izumi, Takuo Suganuma & Norio Shiratori

  2. Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University,  

    Satoru Izumi, Takuo Suganuma, Tetsuo Kinoshita & Norio Shiratori

  3. Cyberscience Center, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan

    Tetsuo Kinoshita

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  1. School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, South Korea

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  2. Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Department of Informatics, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, 819-0395, Fukuoka, Japan

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  3. School of Techno-Business Administration, Dept. of Computer Science, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso, Showa-ku, 466-8555, Nagoya, Japan

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Takahashi, H., Izumi, S., Suganuma, T., Kinoshita, T., Shiratori, N. (2009). An Agent-Based Framework for Healthcare Support System. In: Yang, JJ., Yokoo, M., Ito, T., Jin, Z., Scerri, P. (eds) Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5925. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11161-7_33

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