TY - GEN
T1 - Medical equipment maintenance support with service-oriented multi-agent services
AU - Lopez, Beatriz
AU - Pla, Albert
AU - Daroca, David
AU - Collantes, Luis
AU - Lozano, Sara
AU - Meléndez, Joaquim
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Service oriented architectures (SOA) have emerged as an approach to handle the complexity of enterprise interoperability. Recently, multi-agent systems have been promoted as a technique to deal with cooperation issues involved in SOA. This cooperation is particularly important in several application domains, in which different companies are involved in a concrete service deployment. Agents, among other issues, offer the possibility to decide, if more than one option is available, providing flexibility and robustness. In this paper, we describe the agent-based cooperation process we have followed to enable partner's cooperation in an equipment maintenance workflow. The use of ontologies and relationships with standards is highlighted. The approach is illustrated in an hospital scenario considered in the AIMES project.
AB - Service oriented architectures (SOA) have emerged as an approach to handle the complexity of enterprise interoperability. Recently, multi-agent systems have been promoted as a technique to deal with cooperation issues involved in SOA. This cooperation is particularly important in several application domains, in which different companies are involved in a concrete service deployment. Agents, among other issues, offer the possibility to decide, if more than one option is available, providing flexibility and robustness. In this paper, we describe the agent-based cooperation process we have followed to enable partner's cooperation in an equipment maintenance workflow. The use of ontologies and relationships with standards is highlighted. The approach is illustrated in an hospital scenario considered in the AIMES project.
KW - Data mining
KW - Multi-agent systems
KW - Ontologies
KW - Service oriented architectures
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84887227675&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-25920-3_35
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-25920-3_35
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84887227675
SN - 9783642259197
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 487
EP - 498
BT - Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems - 13th International Conference, PRIMA 2010, Revised Selected Papers
T2 - 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA 2010
Y2 - 12 November 2010 through 15 November 2010
ER -