@inbook{d6446ea8c30a4c60876f7f3b128df05d,
title = "Analysing the suitability of multiagent methodologies for e-health systems",
abstract = "Online e-health systems are being proposed and developed at an ever increasing rate. However, the progress relies on the interoperability of local healthcare software, and is often hampered by ad hoc methods leading to closed systems with a multitude of protocols, terminologies, and design approaches. Agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) seems intuitively a good approach for developing more open systems. While agent-based e-health systems have been developed, the general hypothesis of the suitability of AOSE has not been evaluated. In this paper, we test that hypothesis, including a case study of applying a normative agent methodology to a particular real-world e-health system, and present an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of AOSE for e-health.",
keywords = "Contracts, Health systems, Normative environments, Organisational Agent Architectures, System of Systems",
author = "Emilia Garcia and Gareth Tyson and Simon Miles and Michael Luck and Adel Taweel and {Van Staa}, Tjeerd and Brendan Delaney",
year = "2013",
month = sep,
day = "5",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-39866-7_8",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783642398650",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Berlin Heidelberg",
pages = "134--150",
editor = "Muller, {Jorg P.} and Massimo Cossentino",
booktitle = "Agent-Oriented Software Engineering XIII",
note = "13th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering XIII, AOSE 2012 ; Conference date: 04-06-2012 Through 04-06-2012",
}