Agbele, Kehinde K.Adesina, Ademola OlusolaDaniel, EkongSeluwa, Dele2014-03-192014-03-192012Agbele, K.K., et al. (2012). Agent-based context-aware healthcare information retrieval using DROPT approach. International Journal of Information Retrieval, 5 (2): 109-1180974-6285http://hdl.handle.net/10566/1061As 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.en© 2012 Agbele et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Mobile healthcareContext-awarenessAgents systemmedical informaticsHealthcare information managementNew ranking algorithmArticle