Architectural design of a multi agent enterprise knowledge management system (MAEKMS) for e-health

Abstract

A knowledge management system manages, organizes, filters, analyses, and disseminates knowledge in all of its forms within an organization. The functions of a KMS can be best performed by a network of agents, coordinating, collaborating and cooperating with each other so as to manage the knowledge in such a way that right information is available to the right user at the right time and in the right format. It's necessary to use intelligent software agents in knowledge based systems so that the difficult tasks are decomposed into smaller sub-tasks and that each sub-task is solved with the most appropriate reasoning technique without increasing the execution time. The same has been achieved by combining the concepts of Multi Agent Systems and Knowledge Management Systems and formulating a Multi Agent Enterprise Knowledge Management System (MAEKMS). Such a MAEMS is used in the field of e-health. This paper uses extended Gaia to design the system and its functional components. A part of the system is implemented using Java and MySql. The multiple agents are developed using JADE (Java Agent Development Environment).