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Supporting Adaptability in Agent-Based Digital Healthcare Ecosystems

Authors:
Victor Rentea
Fabrizio Ricci
Luca Dan Serbanati
Andrei Vasilateanu

Keywords: virtual healthcare record; digital healthcare ecosystem; biomimicry; multi-agent systems; virtual organisms; adaptability

Abstract:
The paper describes a new direction towards supporting a continuity of care by using the more natural and expressive paradigm of digital ecosystems. We introduce the conceptual model and architecture of the Digital Healthcare Ecosystem focusing on the reflection of the real to the virtual in healthcare followed by a “contamination” of the virtual in the real. We also propose a nature-inspired, agent-based approach to an adaptive mechanism supporting the evolution of the e-health services in the ecosystem. The mechanism is based on aggregation, migration and selection strategies inspired from biomimicry and distributed evolutionary computing.

Pages: 104 to 109

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: September 25, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4197

ISBN: 978-1-61208-155-7

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from September 25, 2011 to September 30, 2011