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We present MeSSyCo, a multi-agent system that integrates and coordinates heterogeneous medical services. Agents in MeSSyCo may perform different tasks such as diagnosis and intelligent resource allocation and coordinate themselves through an infrastructure based on a combination of abductive and probabilistic reasoning. In this way a set of specialized medical service providers could be aggregated into a system able to perform more complex medical tasks.
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Ciampolini, A., Mello, P., Storari, S. (2008). An Abductive Multi-Agent System for Medical Services Coordination. In: Bramer, M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice II. IFIP AI 2008. IFIP – The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 276. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09695-7_41
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