Topics of the workshop A2HC 2017
This workshop intends to bring together communities from Agents/Multi-Agent Systems and clinicians working on Healthcare, providing the opportunity to encourage presentation and discussion of ongoing work in the area. The workshop encourages multidisciplinary works, including the study and application of Multi-Agent concepts to healthcare environments. It is therefore of direct interest for the participants of the AAMAS main conference.
- Mobile Agents in Hospital Environments
- Patient Empowerment through Personalised Agent-based Systems
- Agents that provide autonomous and remote care delivery.
- Medical Agent-based Decision Support Systems, including Recommender Systems
- Agents that provide information about medical services.
- MAS for patient monitoring and diagnosis.
- Applications of agents and multi-agent systems in health care.
- MAS that improve medical training or education (e.g. tutoring systems).
- Information agents that gather, compile and organise medical data and knowledge available on Internet.
- Solutions to the basic methodological and technological problems associated to the real deployment of health-care agent-based systems:
- Security, privacy of medical data.
- Social acceptance of agent-based systems.
- Integration and use of medical ontologies.
- Lack of centralised control.
- Communication standards.
- Integration with other types of software.
- Impact of Agents and Robots in Patient Quality of Life
- Robotics in Healthcare (Prosthetics / Surgical Robotics/Assistive Technologies)
- Legal and ethical issues related to the use of agents in health care.
- Surveys providing an up to date view of the state of the art in the area of agents in health care.