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Capturing and Specifying Multiagent Systems for the Management of Community Healthcare

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Advanced Computational Intelligence Paradigms in Healthcare – 1

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    Ashlesha Jain

  3. Independant Living Centre, Blacks Road 11, 5095, Adelaide, Australia

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Hill, R. (2007). Capturing and Specifying Multiagent Systems for the Management of Community Healthcare. In: Yoshida, H., Jain, A., Ichalkaranje, A., Jain, L.C., Ichalkaranje, N. (eds) Advanced Computational Intelligence Paradigms in Healthcare – 1. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47527-9_6

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