A Systematic Literature Review of Agents Applied in Healthcare

Abstract

Intelligent agents and healthcare have been intimately linked in the last years. The intrinsic complexity and diversity of care can be tackled with the flexibility, dynamics and reliability of multi-agent systems. The purpose of this review is to show the feasibility of applying intelligent agents in the healthcare domain and use the findings to provide a discussion of current trends and devise future research directions. A review of the most recent literature (2009-2014) of applications of agents in healthcare is discussed, and two classifications considering the main goal of the health systems as well as the main actors involved have been investigated. This review shows that the number of published works exhibits a growing interest of researchers in this field in a wide range of applications.

Simulation Modelling in Healthcare: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Literature Reviews

“…Table 2 presents the remaning 16 reviews which present multiple types of applications and the classification of the applications of simulation studies, within those articles [7,8,12,14,16,18,20,22,25,27,28,33,34,36,37,39]. The numbers of simulation studies relating to the different application groups were identified and extracted from the sixteen reviews.…”

“…No. of studies identified [7] (n= 93) [8] (n= 182) [12] (n= 463) [14] (n= 168) [16,18] (n= 201) [20] (n= 75) [22] (n= 70) [25] (n= 98) [27] (n= 142) [28] (n= 74) [33] (n= 117) [34] (n= 6) [36] (n= 97) [37] (n= 106) [39] (n= 232) …”

An Analysis of Software Agents, Environ-ments and Applications School (WESAAC): Retrospective, Relevance, and Trends

“…The analysis of how the Software Engineering (SE) area as well as the Requirements Engineering is evolving has been the topic of some studies (Dermeval et al, 2015), (Oliveira et al, 2011), (Laski et al, 2014), (Juziuk, Weyns and Holvoet, 2014) and (Isern and Moreno, 2016).…”

“…The purpose of the review presented in (Isern and Moreno, 2016) is to show the feasibility of applying intelligent agents in the healthcare domain and use the findings to provide a discussion of current trends and devise future research directions. The authors present a review of the most recent literature (2009-2014) of applications of agents in healthcare is discussed, and two classifications considering the main goal of the health systems as well as the main actors involved have been investigated.…”

A Novel Priority-based Deadlock Detection and Resolution Algorithm in Mobile Agent Systems

“…There is no standard definition of mobile agent (some definitions can be found in literature [4,10,11,13,20]). Even so, we can obtain some common characteristics of mobile agent as summarized in [5]: mobility, autonomy, sociality, reactivity, proactivity, data acquisition, and route determination, etc.…”