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SaraMontagna Sylvain Giroux
University of Bologna UniversitédeSherbrooke
Cesena Sherbrooke,QC
Italy Canada
PedroHenriques Abreu Michael IgnazSchumacher
University of Coimbra University of AppliedSciences of Western
Coimbra Switzerland
Portugal Delémont
Switzerland
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Preface
Intelligent agent-based systems constitute one of the most exciting research areas in
artificial intelligence. Owing to the growing interest in the application of agent-based
systems in health care, a number of applications addressing clinical problems are
already based on agent technology. Current topics of research include personalized
health systems for remote and autonomous tele-assistance, communication, and
co-operationbetweendistributedintelligentagentstomanagepatientcare,information
agents that retrieve medical information from distributed repositories, intelligent and
distributed data mining, and multi-agent systems that assist the doctors in the tasks of
monitoring, decision support, and diagnosis. Several methodological and technical
problems have been discovered by researchers who attempt to deploy agent-based
systemsinthemedicalarea;justtonameafew,thegrowingnumberofhugedatabases
that need to be integrated (e.g., genetic data from next-generation sequencing), the
difficultytointegratenewagent-basedsystemswithlegacysoftware,theneedtoapply
changing national and international laws and regulations concerning the privacy of
medicaldata,andthesecurityofthetransactionofpatientinformationbetweenagents.
In 2017, these topics were discussed in two major workshops:
1. The10theditionoftheWorkshoponAgentsAppliedinHealthCare(A2HC2017)
hostedatAAMAS2017,the16thInternationalConferenceonAutonomousAgents
and Multiagent Systems, which took place in São Paulo, Brazil on May 8, 2017
2. WorkshoponAgentsandMulti-agentSystemsforAALande-Health(A-HEALTH
2017) hosted at PAAMS 2017, the 15th International Conference on Practical
Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, which took place in Porto,
Portugal, during June 21, 2017
For the 2017 edition of the two workshops, we received a total of 16 submissions,
fromwhichweselectednineforpresentation(near55%acceptance).Thisproceedings
joint volume gathers peer-reviewed extended versions of selected papers presented at
these workshops.
Wearedeeplygratefultoalltheparticipantsfortheirlivelycontributionduringthe
presentation of the papers and during the general discussion about the challenges that
the application of agent technology in the health-care field faces. We are also very
grateful to all the members of the Program Committee for their hard work. A special
thanks goes to Juan Antonio Rodríguez Aguilar (IIIA-CSIC, Spain) and Gita
Sukthankar (University of Central Florida, USA) for their work as AAMAS 2017
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workshop chairs. Finally, a sincere thanks to the co-organizers of the workshops:
Márcia Ito for managing the local organization of A2HC, Daniel Castro Silvia for his
valuable work in the review phase, Eloisa Vargiu and Kasper Hallenborg for sup-
porting us in various phases of the workshop organization.
November 2017 Sara Montagna
Pedro Henriques Abreu
Sylvain Giroux
Michael Ignaz Schumacher
A2HC 2017 Organization
Organizing Committee
Daniel Castro Silva University of Porto, Portugal
Pedro Henriques Abreu University of Coimbra, Portugal
Márcia Ito IBMBrazil/UniversityofTechnologyofSãoPaulo,Brazil
Sara Montagna University of Bologna, Italy
Michael Schumacher University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western
Switzerland (HES-SO), Sierre, Switzerland
Eloisa Vargiu Fundació Eurecat - eHealth Unit, Spain
Program Committee
Agostino Poggi University of Parma, Italy
Aldo Franco Dragoni Marche Polytechnic University, Italy
Andrea Omicini University of Bologna, Italy
Antonio Moreno Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
Beatriz López Ibáñez University of Girona, Spain
David Isern Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Davide Calvaresi Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
Diana Adamatti Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brazil
Filipe Portela Univerity of Minho, Portugal
Francisco Grimaldo University of Valencia, Spain
Juan Carlos Nieves Universitat Umea, Sweden
Kasper Hallenborg University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Lenka Lhotska Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Luiz Cysneiros York University, Canada
Marcelo Ladeira Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
Martin Beer Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Szymon Wilk Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Vassilis Koutkias Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Visara Urovi University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
Viviana Mascardi University of Genoa, Italy
A-HEALTH 2017 Organization
Organizing Committee
Kasper Hallenborg University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Sylvain Giroux University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Program Committee
Juan M. Corchado University of Salamanca, Spain
Javier Bajo Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Juan F. De Paz University of Salamanca, Spain
Sara Rodríguez University of Salamanca, Spain
Valerie Camps Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse, France
Cristian I. Pinzón Technical University of Panama, Panama
Sigeru Omatu Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan
Paulo Novais University of Minho, Portugal
Luis F. Castillo University of Caldas, Colombia
Florentino Fernandez University of Vigo, Spain
Belén Pérez Lancho University of Salamanca, Spain
Jesús García Herrero Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Helena Lindgren University of Umea, Sweden
Goretti Marreiros Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Gaetano Carmelo University of Catania, Italy
La Delfa Tiancheng Li Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Contents
Teleassistance, Remote and Monitoring Agents Applications
Agent-Based Systems for Telerehabilitation: Strengths, Limitations
and Future Challenges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Davide Calvaresi, Michael Schumacher, Mauro Marinoni,
Roger Hilfiker, Aldo F. Dragoni, and Giorgio Buttazzo
Engineering IoT Systems Through Agent Abstractions: Smart
Healthcare as a Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Eloisa Vargiu and Franco Zambonelli
Event Calculus Agent Minds Applied to Diabetes Monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Nicola Falcionelli, Paolo Sernani, Albert Brugués,
Dagmawi Neway Mekuria, Davide Calvaresi, Michael Schumacher,
Aldo Franco Dragoni, and Stefano Bromuri
Personal Assistant Agents in Health-Care
A Personal Medical Digital Assistant Agent for Supporting Human
Operators in Emergency Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Angelo Croatti, Sara Montagna, and Alessandro Ricci
A System for the Management of Clinical Tasks Throughout the Clinical
Process with Notification Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
AntónioSilva,TiagoOliveira,JoséNeves,KenSatoh,andPauloNovais
A Multipurpose Goal Model for Personalised Digital Coaching. . . . . . . . . . . 94
Jayalakshmi Baskar, Rebecka Janols, Esteban Guerrero,
Juan Carlos Nieves, and Helena Lindgren
Prediction Models for Health and Societal Challenges
Towards Social Care Prediction Services Aided by Multi-agent Systems . . . . 119
Emilio Serrano and Javier Bajo
Multi-agent Systems for Epidemiology: Example of an Agent-Based
Simulation Platform for Schistosomiasis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Papa Alioune Cisse, Jean Marie Dembele, Moussa Lo,
and Christophe Cambier
Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
