Multiagent Approach for Cancer Automated Registration

Abstract

Recording and monitoring patients with cancer in distributed databases, generally called registries, present a priority in cases in which these diseases have become a major public health problem. The cancer registries contain a comprehensive collection of information about patients that enter under the incidence of the certain disease, extended to population level and they are essential in order to improve the quality of care and survival for patients. The aim of our research is to develop a multiagent system with the goal of automating the process of registration using one of the agent-oriented software engineering methodologies. The INGENIAS methodology is selected based on more evaluation criteria: concepts and properties, modeling language, model-related, and organizational. The analysi-to-implementation procedure of the multiagent system, following the INGENIAS approach, consists in the presentation of five basic concepts: organization, agent, tasks/goals, interaction, and environment. Following the methodology a prototype is implemented. The prototype is tested in a medical centre responsible with the cancer regional registry management and the experimental results show the potential of the multiagent approach.