| AAMAS Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems for Medicine, Computational Biology, and Bioinformatics Preface (2005) | |||||||||||||||
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| There is nearly no country in the world not suffering from the ever increasing impacts and costs for its health care system. These are not the least boosted by the steadily increasing number of drugs, diagnosis tools and methods, and treatment procedures that appear continuously on the market. On the other hand, in today’s globalized world, a fast and reliable system of medical prevention, diagnosis and treatment is of eminent importance, as can be seen from, for example, the recent problems with SARS and the bird flu. Such highly contagious and lethal diseases can threaten the globe if they were not fought immediately with the highest level of efficiency and reliability. This requires, first of all, a fast and reliable (early) diagnosis, no matter where the affected person may geographically be in the world. The above are some of the many situations that manifest that the medical domain is characterized by requirements for high dynamics, distribution, flexibility, scalability, extensibility, efficiency, cooperative work and collaboration, proactivity, | |||||||||||||||
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