OBJECTIVE The objective of our project was to create a tool for physicians to explore health claims data with regard to adverse drug reactions. The Java Adverse Drug Event (JADE) tool should enable the analysis of prescribed drugs in connection with diagnoses from hospital stays. METHODS We calculated the number of days drugs were taken by using the defined daily doses and estimated possible ...

There are fundamental limitations on using mental attitudes to formalise the semantics of an Agent Communication Language (ACL). In this paper, we define a general semantic framework for a class of ACLs in terms of protocols, and develop a method for designing and specifying a member of this class, and configuring it for a particular application. We then analyse the performatives and protocols ...

Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) is one of the fields of the agent domain with a continuous growing interest. The reason is that the possibility to easily specify and implement agent-based systems is of a great importance for the recognition of the add-value of the agent technology in many application fields. In this paper we present an attempt towards this direction, by proposing a k...

Intelligent and secure automatic energy meters reading and management using mobile agents can be of great importance for municipalities and energy distribution companies so as to efficiently read these meters and to decrease the number of traditional visits required by the energy company, and decreasing the number of employees used in performing this traditional time consuming and high cost wor...

In this work, we propose a 3D rendering system that distributes rendering tasks across a multi-agent platform. The new approach is based on a multi-agent platform, where the goal is to create a virtual 3D environment. The main task is the rendering of individual objects. Each 3D object must be rendered in a remote unit; the resulting rendering is sent through the network to a 3D visualization p...

Interaction is an essential feature in multiagent systems. Design primitives are needed to explicitly model desired patterns. This work presents 2COMM as a framework for defining social relations among parties, represented by social commitments. Starting from the definition of interaction protocols, 2COMM allows to decouple interaction design from agent design, an advantage that simplifies agen...

Evolutionary agents are flexible, agile, capable of learning, and appropriate for problems with changing conditions or where the correct solution cannot be known in advance. Evolutionary Multi-Agent systems, therefore, consist of populations of agents that learn through interactions with the environment and with other agents and which are periodically subject to evolutionary processes. In this ...

Mobile Agents are programs that can migrate between different hosts in an autonomous way, continuing their execution from the point where they stopped before the migration. An approach that can simplify and improve the development of applications based on Mobile Agents are the use of Design Patterns – ideas of solutions for a given problem inside some context. However, despite their potentialit...

Electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) systems integrate many previously separate clinical activities related to fetal monitoring. Promoting the use of ubiquitous fetal monitoring services with real time status assessments requires a robust information platform equipped with an automatic diagnosis engine. This paper presents the design and development of a mobile multi-agent platform-based open info...

Creating modular behaviours in JADE using a traditional method such as the FSM (Finite State Machine) can be a difficult task to achieve. The first issue with FSMs is that they do not allow reusability of logic in different contexts. Secondly, the FSMs do not lend themselves well to concurrency within the execution thread and thus eliminating the possibility for parallel behaviours. Lastly, as ...