Developing an Ontology-Based Multi-Agent Tool for Cancer Diseases Knowledge Management

This paper presents the process of developing an ontology-based multi-agent tool for cancer diseases knowledge management. The tool was built using the Java Agent Development framework (JADE) which is the most widespread agent-oriented middleware. The tool is composed of two intelligent agents which implement the client (patient) and server (physician) roles for the cancer diseases. The “Diagnosis Agent” class acts as a physician and the “Client Agent” class acts as a patient. The two agents use a common ontology “Disease Ontology” that defines the vocabulary and semantics which represent the terms that constitute the specific language of the agents. The tool can be used to find the cancer type or determining the stage of a specific cancer. Moreover it can provide treatment solutions according to the cancer discovered or the stage of the cancer determined.

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