With the growth of the Internet, hospitals have applied HL7 (Health Level Seven) to exchange data between them. The referral system is identified as an appropriate application system. The effect of referral is to transfer the patient to a suitable hospital in a timely fashion, and to arrange appropriate treatment for the patient. Taking advantage of the Internet to exchange referral data can, n...

A referral system is an agent-based framework for assisting and simplifying person-to-person communication , such as nding experts for a speci-ed topic. The informal person-to-person social networks are used as \referral chain" requests for expertise, and software agents help automate the search of information and expertise. However, current systems rely exclusively on collections of email mess...

Referral systems are designed to simplify person-to-person communication by helping find relevant humans with whom to communicate regarding a specified topic. Such systems maintain and explore an informal person-to-person social network, which provides knowledge about the relevance of potential correspondents to a user’s information needs. Like our approach, current referral systems are based o...

Many important and useful applications for software agents require multiple agents on a network that communicate with each other. Such agents must find each other and perform a useful joint computation without having to know about every other such agent on the network. This paper describes a matchmaker system, designed to find people with similar interests and introduce them to each other. The ...