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<p class="">The Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Applied in Health Care Special Issue intends to provide a discussion forum on the most recent and innovative work regarding the study and application of agent-based technology to convincing healthcare


 scenarios. A healthcare facility faces diverse and complex everyday challenges, ranging from equipment and drug inventory management to patient clinical record and follow-up management, or even patient monitoring in either a hospital or home environment, and


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Pedro Henriques Abreu, University of Coimbra, Portugal<br class="">


Eloisa Vargiu, eHealth Unit - Fundació Eurecat, Spain<br class="">


Márcia Ito, São Paulo Faculty of Technology / IBM Research Brazil, Brazil<br class="">


Michael Ignaz Schumacher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Institute of Information Systems, Switzerland </p>


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