1 THE ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE IN DESIGNING AN AGENT PLATFORM FOR HOME CARE*
Ákos Hajnal, Gianfranco Pedone, László Z. Varga, Antonio Moreno, David Riaño · SZTAKI Publication Repository (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) · 2007
There is a great demand on the application of Artificial Intelligence techniques and Multi-Agent Systems in health care, since traditional techniques are often not suitable to manage complex tasks that highly change in time or to adapt to unexpected events. The codification of health care treatments as well as the formalization of domain, application knowledge served as an explicit, a priori asset for the agent platform to be implemented. However, the system is required having the capability of applying new, implicit knowledge emerging from physicians on the fly. This paper presents a methodology in modeling and implementing an agent system for home care that is also able to admit and apply new medical knowledge. * This paper was prepared in the context of the K4CARE project, funded under the 6th Framework Programme of the