ADAPT: Adaptive Multi-Agent Process Planning and Coordination of Clinical Trials
Christian Heine, Rainer Herrler, Mathias Petsch, Christian Anhalt · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2003
We present a system for planning; management and decision support of clinical trials and describe the initial system concept, currently implemented or specified functionalities and the integration of FIPA standardization activities.The example scenario "clinical trials" illustrates how the system supports distributed clinical processes and how it interacts with other multiagent systems of the Agent.Hospital Framework introduced in the paper.The system development is part of the German Priority Research Program (SPP) 1083 "Intelligent Agents and their application in business scenarios" Keywords: Multi-agent systems, simulation, health care, clinical trials Corresponding questions are examined since 2000 by the German Priority Research Program (SPP 1083; http://www.realagents.org). The main goal of SPP 1083 is the examination of agent technologies within large realistic business scenarios and the identification of further research needs.One of the examined domain specific scenarios focuses on the healthcare domain.Basic supposition of the SPP is that agent-based development and connection of decentralized information systems generates essential benefit by supporting interorganizational business processes and organizational flexibility.Examination of these hypotheses is supported by large agent-based software systems.