UCTx: A Multi-Agent System to Assist a Transplant Coordination Unit

Issue Title: Special Issue: Machine Learning Policies We present a system called UCTx designed to model and automate some of the tasks performed by a Transplant Coordination Unit (UCTx) inside a Hospital. The aim of this work is to show how a multi-agent approach allows us to describe and implement...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Applied intelligence (Dordrecht, Netherlands) Netherlands), 2004-01, Vol.20 (1), p.59-70
Main Authors: Cortés, U., Vázquez-Salceda, J., López-Navidad, A., Caballero, F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agents (artificial intelligence)
Computer applications
Expert systems
Hospitals
Mathematical models
Multi agent systems
Negotiations
Organ transplants
Studies
Tasks
Transplantation
Transplants
Transplants & implants
Citations: Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Issue Title: Special Issue: Machine Learning Policies We present a system called UCTx designed to model and automate some of the tasks performed by a Transplant Coordination Unit (UCTx) inside a Hospital. The aim of this work is to show how a multi-agent approach allows us to describe and implement the model, and how UCTx is capable of dealing with another multi-agent system (Carrel, an Agent Mediated Institution for the Exchange of Human Tissues among Hospitals for Transplantation) in order to meet its own goals, acting as the representative of the hospital in the negotiation. As an example we introduce the use of this Agency in the case of Cornea Transplantation.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0924-669X
1573-7497
DOI:10.1023/B:APIN.0000011142.91514.57