A survey on agents applications in healthcare: Opportunities, challenges and trends.

Journal: Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The agent abstraction is a powerful one, developed decades ago to represent crucial aspects of artificial intelligence research. The meaning has transformed over the years and now there are different nuances across research communities. At its core, an agent is an autonomous computational entity capable of sensing, acting, and capturing interactions with other agents and its environment. This review examines how agent-based techniques have been implemented and evaluated in a specific and very important domain, i.e. healthcare research.

Authors

  • Emilio Sulis
    Computer Science Department, University of Torino, Torino, Italy. emilio.sulis@unito.it.
  • Stefano Mariani
    Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy.
  • Sara Montagna
    DISI-University of Bologna, Cesena, Italy.