A Multiagent Architecture for Developing Medical Information Retrieval Agents
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-2003
Keywords
agent, information retrieval, medical information, multiagent system, web search
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025668124244
Abstract
Information that is available on the world wide web (WWW) is already more vast than can be comprehensibly studied by individuals and this quantity is increasing at a staggering pace. The quality of service delivered by physicians is dependent on the availability of current information. The agent paradigm offers a means for enabling physicians to filter information and retrieve only information that is relevant to current patient treatments. As with many specialized domains, agent-based information retrieval in medical domains must satisfy several domain-dependent constraints. A multiple agent architecture is developed and described in detail to efficiently provide agent-based information retrieval from the WWW and other explicit information resources. A simulation of the proposed multiple agent architecture shows a 97% decrease in information overload and an 85% increase in information relevancy over existing meta-search tools (with even larger gains over standard search engines).
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of Medical Systems, v. 27, issue 5, p. 479-498
Scholar Commons Citation
Walczak, Steven, "A Multiagent Architecture for Developing Medical Information Retrieval Agents" (2003). School of Information Faculty Publications. 195.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/si_facpub/195
