Agent-based context-aware healthcare information retrieval using DROPT approach
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2012Author
Agbele, Kehinde K.
Adesina, Ademola Olusola
Daniel, Ekong
Seluwa, Dele
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As the volume of information available on the Web information systems is growing continuously, browsing
this content becomes a tedious task given the presentation of data that does meet user's aims and needs. In this
paper, to satisfy user needs, an agent-based paradigm is an appropriate solution which gives outputs suitable to
the user in the form of highly ranked documents. Conversely, patient care and a health condition commonly
require collaboration between healthcare providers. The emergence of agent's technology motivates radical changes
of how information is obtained. This paper addresses this problem by proposing a novel DROPT (Document
Ranking OPTimization) measure for information retrieval results to validate the effectiveness of the information
management tasks. We propose information retrieval system architecture, which main components are context aware
agent’s technology to meet users' information needs.