Introduction: Agents in Health Care
John Fox · Birkhäuser Basel eBooks · 2003
Agent technology has become a leading area of research in AI and computer science and the focus of a number of major initiatives. One of these is the AgentCities project funded by the European Union 5 th Framework research programme( http://www.agentcities.org ). AgentCities is a federation of specialist communities with a common interest in agents, one of which is concerned with health care. In this book, John Nealon and Toni Moreno have brought together an interesting set of papers that discuss the many practical issues that arise in trying to build agent applications in medicine. The papers are not simply focused on the health care domain however: they also succeed in raising a number of theoretical issues of wide relevance to the general field of agent research These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.