Carrel: an agent mediated institution for the exchange of human tissues among hospitals for transplantation
Ulises Cortés, Antonio López‐Navidad, Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Alberto Vázquez Huerga, Dídac Busquets, Manuel Nicolas, Evanda Sabrine Lopes Lima-Ribeiro, Fernando Vazquez, Francisco Caballero · 2000
In this work we present an application of Intelligent Agents Technology to mediate in the exchange of Human Tissues for transplantation. The impact of this activity is considered to be of first importance for health and also very important in economic terms. The creation of an Institution, called Carrel, will aid in finding intelligent means for a better assignation of organs, tissues and bones banked for transplantation in human beings. Carrel follows the approach of other well-known Agent Mediated Institutions such as Fishmarket [2], [6] and AuctionBot [16], [14] in order to assure a fair distribution of resources. Carrel is an Intelligent Resources Management Service. Keywords: Agent Mediated Institutions, Negotiation, Tissues Bank. 1 Introduction The importance for health of a single organ and tissue donor is of first magnitude, both from assistance and economic terms. A single organ donor can satisfy the transplantation of dozens of organ and tissue recipients [...