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</span><span class="" style="font-family:TrebuchetMS">“Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Applied in Healthcare</span><span class="" style="font-family:TrebuchetMS">”, Submission deadline: 31 January 2021.</span><br class="" style="font-family:TrebuchetMS">
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<span class="" style="font-family:TrebuchetMS">CALL FOR PAPERS for Special Issue of MDPI Electronics on</span><br class="" style="font-family:TrebuchetMS">
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<span class="" style="font-family:TrebuchetMS">Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2021</span></div>
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<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">The innovation of healthcare services, infrastructures, and processes is impelling and worthy. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated how digital tools and artificial intelligence are necessary to improve the efficiency,
efficacy, and quality of healthcare systems (i.e., by supporting tracking and data analysis). Intelligent agent-based systems are one of the most exciting research areas in artificial intelligence, which have proven to be a key component for the digitalization
of healthcare. Specific topics like ageing, active living, chronic diseases, or others related to quality of life play an increasingly important role in this research field. This Special Issue calls for research discussing applications of intelligent agents
in healthcare scenarios.</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">The topics of interest include but are not limited to:</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Agent-based methods for medical image segmentation or classification;</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Agent-based decision support systems for disease diagnosis;</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Agent-based medical data processing, such as EMR management and exchange, healthcare data streams from Internet of Things, HIS interoperability and integration;</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Mobile agents in hospital environments;</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Patient empowerment and chronic disease self-management through personalized agent-based systems and models;</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Intelligent agents that provide autonomous and remote care delivery;</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Clinical agent-based decision support systems, including recommender systems;</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Conversational agents and personal digital assistants for patient empowerment.</font></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="font-family:TrebuchetMS">Special Issue Editors</span><br class="" style="font-family:TrebuchetMS">
<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Dr. Sara Montagna</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Prof. Dr. Michael Ignaz Schumacher</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Dr. Stefano Mariani</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Dr. Eloisa Vargiu</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Dr. Davide Calvaresi</font></div>
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www.mdpi.com</a> by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously
in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the
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<div class="">Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A
guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Electronics is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.</div>
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<div class="">Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English.
Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.</div>
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Sara Montagna, PhD<br class="">
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