Role of Multi-Agents System in Creation of Collaborative Environments within Mental Health Domain

Mental illness is becoming one of the major problems of our society. The World Health Organization predicted that depression would be the world’s leading cause of disability by 2020. The exact causes of many mental illnesses are still unknown, mainly due to the complex nature of mental health. In th...

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Main Authors: Hadzic, Maja, Dillon, Darshan S.
Other Authors: Raman Paranjape
Format: Book Chapter
Published: IGI Global 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23660
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Dillon, Darshan S.
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description Mental illness is becoming one of the major problems of our society. The World Health Organization predicted that depression would be the world’s leading cause of disability by 2020. The exact causes of many mental illnesses are still unknown, mainly due to the complex nature of mental health. In this paper, the authors propose a multi-agent system designed to assist in effective and efficient management, retrieval and analysis of mental health information. They utilize the TICSA approach to define different agent Types, their Intelligence, Collaboration paths, address Security problems and Assemble individual agents. They use UML 2.1 Sequence and Composite diagrams to model social and goal-driven nature of the multi-agent system. The proposed multi-agent system has the potential to provide and expose the knowledge that will increase our understanding and control over mental health and help in development of effective prevention and intervention strategies.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-236602023-01-13T07:56:31Z Role of Multi-Agents System in Creation of Collaborative Environments within Mental Health Domain Hadzic, Maja Dillon, Darshan S. Raman Paranjape Asha Sadanand health information systems mental health multi-agent systems ontology UML 2.1 Mental illness is becoming one of the major problems of our society. The World Health Organization predicted that depression would be the world’s leading cause of disability by 2020. The exact causes of many mental illnesses are still unknown, mainly due to the complex nature of mental health. In this paper, the authors propose a multi-agent system designed to assist in effective and efficient management, retrieval and analysis of mental health information. They utilize the TICSA approach to define different agent Types, their Intelligence, Collaboration paths, address Security problems and Assemble individual agents. They use UML 2.1 Sequence and Composite diagrams to model social and goal-driven nature of the multi-agent system. The proposed multi-agent system has the potential to provide and expose the knowledge that will increase our understanding and control over mental health and help in development of effective prevention and intervention strategies. 2010 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23660 10.4018/978-1-60566-772-0.ch011 IGI Global fulltext
spellingShingle health information systems
mental health
multi-agent systems
ontology
UML 2.1
Hadzic, Maja
Dillon, Darshan S.
Role of Multi-Agents System in Creation of Collaborative Environments within Mental Health Domain
title Role of Multi-Agents System in Creation of Collaborative Environments within Mental Health Domain
title_full Role of Multi-Agents System in Creation of Collaborative Environments within Mental Health Domain
title_fullStr Role of Multi-Agents System in Creation of Collaborative Environments within Mental Health Domain
title_full_unstemmed Role of Multi-Agents System in Creation of Collaborative Environments within Mental Health Domain
title_short Role of Multi-Agents System in Creation of Collaborative Environments within Mental Health Domain
title_sort role of multi-agents system in creation of collaborative environments within mental health domain
topic health information systems
mental health
multi-agent systems
ontology
UML 2.1
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23660