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Multi-Agent System Applications in Health Care: A Survey

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Earlier, medical systems were suffering from many issues. The issues are mostly observed due to inadequate medical practitioners, poor medical infrastructure, manually operated healthcare systems and improper coordination between each and every aspects of healthcare system. Most of the medical reports and records are based on paper and pen, which is difficult to manage and maintain and also raise a question of reliability. So, situation needs a change in the existing system. Keeping that need of change in mind, the concept of multi-agent system was introduced in healthcare system. Multi-agent systems are considered as the best and most appropriate technology that can be applied to fulfill the need required in healthcare system. In multi-agent system, the agents are representing and acting on behalf of users and owners with very difficult goals and motivations. The agents cooperate, coordinate and negotiate with each other in the same way that we cooperate, coordinate and negotiate with other people in day-to-day life and consequently can be used as the best technology to solve the problem arrived in medical healthcare system. This chapter focuses mainly about architecture, planning, implementation and application of multi-agent system in healthcare domain.

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General and reference: Surveys and overviews—multi-agent system (MAS), artificial intelligence, healthcare domain.

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Thakur, C., Gupta, S. (2022). Multi-Agent System Applications in Health Care: A Survey. In: Gupta, S., Banerjee, I., Bhattacharyya, S. (eds) Multi Agent Systems. Springer Tracts in Human-Centered Computing. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0493-6_7

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