Publications by Michael Ignaz Schumacher

Trusted Registration, Negotiation, and Service Evaluation in Multi-Agent Systems throughout the Blockchain Technology

Michael Ignaz Schumacher, Alevtina Dubovitskaya

Some recent trends in distributed intelligent systems rely extensively on agent-based approaches. The so-called Multi Agent Systems (MAS) are taking over the management of sensitive data on behalf of their producers and users (e.g., medical records, financ ...

IEEE2018

TUCUXI: TUCUXI: An Intelligent System for Personalized Medicine from Individualization of Treatments to Research Databases and Back

Karl Aberer, Alevtina Dubovitskaya, Yann Thoma, Michael Ignaz Schumacher, Thierry Buclin

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) is a key concept in precision medicine. The goal of TDM is to avoid therapeutic failure or toxic effects of a drug due to insufficient or excessive circulating concentration exposure related to between-patient variability ...

2017

A Multiagent System for Dynamic Data Aggregation in Medical Research

Karl Aberer, Michael Ignaz Schumacher, Alevtina Dubovitskaya

The collection of medical data for research purposes is a challenging and long-lasting process. In an effort to accelerate and facilitate this process we propose a new framework for dynamic aggregation of medical data from distributed sources. We use agent ...

Hindawi Publishing Corporation2016

A Cloud-Based eHealth Architecture for Privacy Preserving Data Integration

Karl Aberer, Michael Ignaz Schumacher, Matteo Vasirani, Alevtina Dubovitskaya

In this paper, we address the problem of building an anonymized medical database from multiple sources. Our proposed solution defines how to achieve data integration in a heterogeneous network of many clinical institutions, while preserving data utility an ...

Springer International Publishing2015

An Agent Framework for Dynamic Health Data Aggregation for Research Purposes

Karl Aberer, Michael Ignaz Schumacher, Alevtina Dubovitskaya

This paper presents a model of a MAS framework for dynamic aggregation of population health data for research purposes. The contribution of the paper is twofold: First, it describes a MAS architecture that allows one to built on the fly anonymized database ...

2015

Extending Peer-to-Peer Networks for Approximate Search

Ion Constantinescu, Michael Ignaz Schumacher, Roman Schmidt, Alain Mowat

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks are used worldwide for many applications such as file sharing or news servers. There are many different implementations available, each with its pros and cons. In this paper, we propose a way to enable approximate queries in a P ...

2008

Research on Environments in Multiagent Systems: Reflection on the State-of-the-Art

Michael Ignaz Schumacher

2006

Efficient Networking for Pervasive eHealth Applications

Michael Ignaz Schumacher, Tim van Pelt

Gesellschaft für Informatik2006

The governing environment

Michael Ignaz Schumacher

Whenever a multiagent system is designed, many dependencies in the system are identified and must be solved in a correct way. Coordination deals with the management of such dependencies. For that, two complementary viewpoints can be distinguished: subjecti ...

2006

Context-aware Business Application Service Co-ordination in Mobile Computing Environments

Michael Ignaz Schumacher, Antonio Lopez

2005