Multi-Agent Systems for Healthcare Simulation and Modeling: Applications for System Improvement

Multi-Agent Systems for Healthcare Simulation and Modeling: Applications for System Improvement

Raman Paranjape, Asha Sadanand
Indexed In: SCOPUS
Release Date: August, 2009|Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 304
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-772-0
ISBN13: 9781605667720|ISBN10: 1605667722|EISBN13: 9781605667737
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Description:

The modeling of healthcare components and systems in order to develop a complete understanding of component interactions is one of the more challenging simulation and modeling problems for software agent systems.

Multi-Agent Systems for Healthcare Simulation and Modeling: Applications for System Improvement provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings used by medical professionals in the implementation of multi-agent systems. This Premier Reference Source disseminates understanding on the strategic role of systems modeling in healthcare, a valuable resource to academicians, researchers, and field practitioners.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Agency in healthcare system analysis
  • Agent-based healthcare modeling
  • Collaborative enviroments within mental health
  • Economic efficiency in healthcare
  • Healthcare multi-agent simulation system
  • Healthcare Systems
  • Operating room simulation
  • Physician-patient support system
  • Population modeling system
  • Probabilistic neural network
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We are truly fortunate to have such a competent and diverse list of contributing authors for this book. The works presented span the wide breadth of agent application in health care looking at both practical and theoretical issues.

– Raman Paranjape, University of Regina, Canada
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Raman B. Paranjape completed the BSc (1981), MSc (1984), and PhD (1989) degrees at the University of Alberta (Canada). His research interests are in both physical and software agent systems. Research in physical systems has focused on the development of sensor systems and new technologies in image and signal processing for real world application in robotics and automated systems for team formation using both passive and active sonar arrays. Research in software agents is focused on analysis and retrieval of medical data from distributed databases and modeling of agent and human societies. Dr. Paranjape has worked as Research Scientist, Software Engineer, Project Leader, and Project Manager in Canadian Industry. He joined the University of Regina in 1997, and is currently the Professor of Electronic Systems Engineering and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Communities.
Asha B. Sadanand completed a BSc Honors in Mathematics at the University of Alberta (Canada). She then completed an MA in Economics at the University of Alberta (Canada). She went on to do a PhD in Microeconomics at the California Institute of Technology (USA). While she was at the California Institute of Technology she worked on designing market mechanisms for resource allocation and property rights. She is currently a professor of Economics at the University of Guelph. She specializes in microeconomic theory, information economics and game theory. In addition she has interested in industrial organization, experimental economics and law and economics.
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Editorial Advisory Board
Editorial Advisory Board
  • Giancarlo Succi, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
  • Robert Martens, SaskTel Inc, Canada
  • Yan Yang, NetSecure Technologies Ltd., Canada
  • Craig Gelowitz, TRLabs Inc., Canada
  • Stephen O’Leary, University of British Columbia, Canada
  • Mehran Mehrandezh, University of Regina, Canada

    List of Reviewers

  • Asha Sadanand, University of Guelph, Canada
  • Maja Hadzic, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
  • Darshan Dillon, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
  • Georgiy Bobashev, RTI International, USA
  • Andrei Borshchev, XJ Technologies, Russian Federeation
  • David Isern, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
  • Antonio Moreno, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
  • Luigi Benedicenti, University of Regina, Canada
  • Vijay Kumar Mago, DAV College, Jalandhar, Punjab, India
  • Kin Lik Wang, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA
  • Nancy E. Reed, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA
  • Dale S. Vincent, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA
  • Qingjin Peng, University of Manitoba, Canada
  • V. Sadanand, Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Dean Yergens, University of Manitoba, Canada
  • Xiaoqin (Shelley) Zhang, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, USA
  • Simerjit Gill, University of Regina, TRLabs, Canada
  • Raman Paranjape, University of Regina, TRLabs, Canada