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E-medicine covers the whole range of medical process and service. Multi-agent approach is suitable for the development of e-medicine systems. In this paper, firstly the requirements of e-medicine are analysed, and a taxonomy is proposed for e-medicine systems. Secondly multi-agent approach is introduced for developing e-medicine systems, and the design of agents and the design of multi-agent structure are presented for e-medicine systems. Finally a case study is presented on a telemedicine for diabetes to illustrate the development of e-medicine systems.
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Tian, J., Tianfield, H. (2003). A Multi-agent Approach to the Design of an E-medicine System. In: Schillo, M., Klusch, M., Müller, J., Tianfield, H. (eds) Multiagent System Technologies. MATES 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2831. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39869-1_8
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