As two major communication technologies, the internet and wireless, are maturing rapidly to
dominate our civilised life, the authors urgently need to re-establish users' confidence to …

In this paper we aim to implement a highly distributed information infrastructure—MADIP by
using Intelligent Agent paradigm, which is able to notify the responsible care-provider of …

In this paper we introduce the main issues related to the deployment of agent-based
systems in health care. First, we comment on the characteristics of health care problems and …

We present the development of COMMODITY12, a Personal Health System (PHS) to assist
in the provision of continuous and personalised health services to diabetic patients, thus …

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are collections of autonomous intelligent entities that collaborate
in the joint resolution of a complex problem. This kind of systems are appropriate in many …

Managing organ transplant networks is a complex task. It intertwines between locating the
organ procurement and distribution organization (OPDO)(long-term decision) and allocating …

The use of multi-agent systems (MAS) in health-care domains is increasing. Such agent-
mediated medical systems can manage complex tasks and have the potential to adapt …

" It is not the consciousness of men that defines their existence, but, on the contrary, their
social existence determines their consciousness." Karl Marx In recent years, several …

In this paper we extend the formalization of Carrel, a virtual organization for the procurement
of tissues for transplant, to deal also with organs. We focus on the organ allocation process …

It is very important to identify the appropriate donor in organ transplantation under the time
constraint. Clearly, adequate time must be spent in appropriate donor research in that kind …