This paper introduces an extension of the action language AL to Hybrid AL. A program in Hybrid AL specifies both a transition diagram and associated computations for observing fluents and executing actions. The semantics of AL is defined in terms of Answer Set Programming (ASP). Similarly, the semantics of Hybrid AL is defined using Hybrid ASP which is an extension of ASP that allows rules to c...

Open multi-agent systems are societies with autonomous and heterogeneous agents that can work together to achieve similar or different goals. Agents executing in such systems may not be able to achieve their goals due to failures during system execution. This paper’s main goals are to understand why such failures occurred and what can be done to remediate the problem. The distributed, dynamic a...

The paper presents an agent-based platform dedicated for the development of decentralised knowledge-based systems. At conceptual (virtual) level such a system may be treated a set of knowledge components, which represent well-structured, reusable pieces of knowledge together with describing it ontology. Integration of the components is possible only if the knowledge of any component may be acce...

purpose: to ascertain whether the use of nested-pcr (nested polymerase chain reaction) technique leads to more rapid and accurate diagnosis of bacterial endophthalmitis. methods: the aqueous humor and vitreous samples of 24 eyes of 24 patients with bacterial endophthalmitis were evaluated by microscopy, diagnostic aerobic culture, and nested- pcr to detect the infectious agent. results: aerobic...

Hospitals can be viewed as complex systems with sophisticated and often hardly control-able dynamics. Until recently the need for effective management was not really urgent, as the health insurances were able to fund all the necessary tasks in a sufficient manner. But the pressure grows that hospitals have to organize all processes in an optimal way to save time and thus expenses. In medical en...

background: the aims of this study were to identify blastocystis subtypes (sts) in a cohort of turkish patients with various gastrointestinal symptoms using a novel real time pcr method developed recently for blastocystis detection and assess the relationship between blastocystis sts and patient symptoms. methods: totally, 617 stool samples of patients with gastrointestinal symptoms were examin...

<span>The integration of multi-agent system and blockchain technology can be beneficial to healthcare applications by providing intelligent data analysis with security. This paper presents an architecture that integrates learning support breast cancer diagnosis in a secured manner. The proposed is based on parallel hybrid fuzzy logic approach for supporting the prediction disease. showed ...

agent oriented software engineering (aose) is an emerging field in computer science  and  proposes some systematic ideas for multi agent systems analysis, implementation and maintenance. despite the various methodologies introduced in the agent-oriented software engineering, the main challenges are defects in different aspects of methodologies. according to the defects resulted from weaknesses ...

The ability to reconfigure a ship's engineering plant in response to changing mission or equipment conditions can dramatically increase a ship's capability and survivability. We describe the agent-based, distributed diagnostic aspects of a distributed control architecture that integrates multiple ship systems and provides resourceand diagnostic-driven reconfiguration at multiple system levels, ...

Background Stress perfusion cardiac MRI (CMR) with a high relaxivity blood-pool contrast agent should allow for improved quantification of myocardial perfusion and myocardium blood volume in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). In the current study, we sought to evaluate the diagnostic performance and image quality of stress perfusion CMR using the intravascular contrast agent gadofoves...