Provenance in Agent-mediated Healthcare Systems
Kifor, Tamas, Varga, Laszlo, Vazquez-Salceda, Javier, Alvarez, Sergio, Miles, Simon and Moreau, Luc (2006) Provenance in Agent-mediated Healthcare Systems. IEEE Intelligent Systems
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Description/Abstract
Agent-oriented cooperation techniques and standardized electronic healthcare record exchange protocols can be used to combine information regarding different facets of a therapy received by a patient from different healthcare providers at different locations. Provenance is an innovative approach to trace events in complex distributed processes, dependencies between such events, and associated decisions by human actors. We focus on three aspects of provenance in agent-mediated healthcare systems: first, we define the provenance concept and show how it can be applied to agent-mediated healthcare applications; second, we investigate and provide a method for independent and autonomous healthcare agents to document the processes they are involved in without directly interacting with each other; and third, we show that this method solves the privacy issues of provenance in agent-mediated healthcare systems.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 1541-1672 |
| Keywords: | provenance agents distributed systems electronic healthcare |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > Web & Internet Science |
| Item ID: | 263061 |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Oct 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Aug 2012 04:11 |
| Contributors: | Kifor, Tamas (Author) Varga, Laszlo (Author) Vazquez-Salceda, Javier (Author) Alvarez, Sergio (Author) Miles, Simon (Author) Moreau, Luc (Author) |
| Date: | November 2006 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Further Information: | Google Scholar |
| ISI Citation Count: | 11 |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/263061 |
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