Abstract
In this article we present the main features of the data processing technique defined for a system called Aingeru, that provides a new kind of tele assistance service for elderly people. The purpose of developing Aingeru has been to overcome the main constraints that tele assistance services nowadays present by making an extensive use of new advances in PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), wireless communications, and, semantic web and agent technologies.
Concerning the defined data processing technique, the main advantages that it presents are the following:
flexibility – for accessing and managing different types of data by using specialist agents; and for allowing external actors to request the system data through the developed web services.
expressivity – due to the development of a domain ontology that describes states of illnesses that elderly people can suffer from as well as specific states generated by the values captured by the sensors.
interoperability – due mainly to the development of a task ontology that facilitates the communication of the system agents with agents of other systems at a semantic level.
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Tablado, A., Illarramendi, A., Bagüés, M.I., Bermúdez, J., Goñi, A. (2004). A Flexible Data Processing Technique for a Tele-assistance System of Elderly People. In: Christiansen, H., Hacid, MS., Andreasen, T., Larsen, H.L. (eds) Flexible Query Answering Systems. FQAS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3055. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25957-2_22
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