title: Intelligent agents technology applied to tasks scheduling and communications management in a critical care telemonitoring system.
abstract: This work presents an important part of our telemedicine system for critical care units: a distributed module based on intelligent agents technology that is dedicated to the process management of a network for medical monitoring, including distribution and control of processing tasks and bandwidth management. The system provides the real-time acquisition and analysis of physiological data, the graphical visualisation of these data, and their transmission to a central system charged with the collection and control of all the information concerning the patient, including knowledge-based systems (KBS) for medical reasoning.
authors.affiliation: Department of Information and Communications Technologies, University of A Coruña, 15071 A Coruña, Spain. dafonte@udc.es
authors.forename: José Carlos
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Dafonte Vázquez
authors.forename: Alfonso
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Castro Martínez
authors.forename: Angel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gómez
authors.forename: Bernardino
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Arcay Varela
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D019451:Information Management; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data