The Role of Agent Technologies in Personalized Medicine

Abstract

Enormous rapid development of Information Communication Technologies (ICT), but also other closely related domains essentially and immensely changed human society and everyday life especially in last decade. Comparing to 20 or 30 years ago life in modern, highly developed societies almost has been completely changed influenced by technological and science innovations and applications in all domains of human life. Supported by ICT, especially fast developing rather new technologies and concepts like Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Everything (IoE), Smart environments SE), Smart and mobile devices, and soon, Medicine, Healthcare and medical areas faced essential shift ahead. On the other hand, society goes toward an ageing global population caused by remarkable gains in life expectancy. Also, there exist wide range of different activities and unpredictable situations that cause, even within young population, a significant number of disabled people who needs adequate medical support and treatment. Aa a consequence of such situation wide range of stakeholders, research communities, governments, and policy makers invest serious efforts to support development of smart and intelligent environments, ambient assisted living to facilitate independent living of old and disabled population. One of extremely promising Artificial Intelligence (AI) fields that can offer numerous solutions for solving these problems is Agent Technology.