A multiagent telemedicine system

In this paper we propose a telemedicine sytem model based on multiagent systems. Then, we develop a simulator based on this model. The system is composed of seven agents, such as: a medical database management agent, an application agent, and a planning agent. Some simulations are presented to evaluate the performance of our system. The simulator was developed using JAFMAS (Java-based Agent Framework for Multiagent Systems).

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