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A Distributed Ambient Intelligence Based Multi-Agent System for Alzheimer Health Care

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Pervasive Computing

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This chapter presents ALZ-MAS (Alzheimer multi-agent system), an ambient intelligence (AmI)-based multi-agent system aimed at enhancing the assistance and health care for Alzheimer patients. The system makes use of several context-aware technologies that allow it to automatically obtain information from users and the environment in an evenly distributed way, focusing on the characteristics of ubiquity, awareness, intelligence, mobility, etc., all of which are concepts defined by AmI. ALZ-MAS makes use of a services oriented multi-agent architecture, called flexible user and services oriented multi-agent architecture, to distribute resources and enhance its performance. It is demonstrated that a SOA approach is adequate to build distributed and highly dynamic AmI-based multi-agent systems.

The system presented in this paper is an improved version of ALZ-MAS released on Q3 – 2006 by the BISITE Research Group (http://bisite.usal.es/) at the University of Salamanca, Spain.

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This work has been partially supported by the FIT-350300-2007-84 project.

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    Dante I. Tapia, Sara Rodrı́guez & Juan M. Corchado

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Tapia, D.I., Rodrı́guez, S., Corchado, J.M. (2009). A Distributed Ambient Intelligence Based Multi-Agent System for Alzheimer Health Care. In: Hassanien, AE., Abawajy, J., Abraham, A., Hagras, H. (eds) Pervasive Computing. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-599-4_9

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