Data warehousing through multi-agent systems in the medical arena

• Autor(es): Abelha, António ; Machado, José, 1963- ; Alves, Victor ; Neves, José
• Data: 2004
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/3200
• Origem: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Assunto(s): Multi-agent systems; Dataware housing; Medical applications
• Tipo de Documento: Documento de conferência
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

Comunicação apresentada na International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support, 1, Porto, 2004. In this paper it is presented AIDA, an Agency for Integration, Archive and Diffusion of Medical Information. It configures a data warehouse, developed using Multi-Agent technology, that integrates and archives information from heterogeneous sources of a health care unit. AIDA is like a symbiont, with a close association with core applications at any health care facility, namely the Picture Archive Communication System, the Radiological Information System and the Electronic Medical Record Information System, that are built upon pro-active agents and communicate with the AIDA’s ones.