FIPA-OS AGENTS APPLIED TO PROCESS SCHEDULING IN REAl TIME MONITORING

Angel Gómez, Diego Cantorna, Carlos Dafonte, Bernardino Arcay

2004

Abstract

This work presents a mechanism for the management of network tasks, based on the technology of Intelligent Agents applied to a project of Telemedicine in Intensive Care Units (ICUs).The telemedicine system provides the real time acquisition and analysis of physiological data of patients, the graphical visualisation of these data and their transmission to a central system charged with the collection and control of all the information concerning the patient, including knowledge based systems for medical reasoning. The system tasks are managed through the use of intelligent agents, implemented according to the FIPA standard. Each of the agents disposes of a knowledge-based system for its decision-making.

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Gómez A., Cantorna D., Dafonte C. and Arcay B. (2004). FIPA-OS AGENTS APPLIED TO PROCESS SCHEDULING IN REAl TIME MONITORING . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 972-8865-12-0, pages 70-75. DOI: 10.5220/0001141000700075


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco04,
author={Angel Gómez and Diego Cantorna and Carlos Dafonte and Bernardino Arcay},
title={FIPA-OS AGENTS APPLIED TO PROCESS SCHEDULING IN REAl TIME MONITORING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2004},
pages={70-75},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001141000700075},
isbn={972-8865-12-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - FIPA-OS AGENTS APPLIED TO PROCESS SCHEDULING IN REAl TIME MONITORING
SN - 972-8865-12-0
AU - Gómez A.
AU - Cantorna D.
AU - Dafonte C.
AU - Arcay B.
PY - 2004
SP - 70
EP - 75
DO - 10.5220/0001141000700075