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Memory is one of our most precious goods has it gives us the ability to store, retain and recall information thus giving a meaning to our past and help us to envision our future, dreams and expectations. However, ageing decreases the capacity of remembering and the capacity to store new memories, thus affecting our life quality. These presented problems configure a social and human dilemma. With the presented work we intend to address some of these problems, thru the use of the Personal Memory Assistant (PMA) concept in order to help its user to remember things and occurrences in a proactive manner. We will also address socialization and relaxation events that should be part of the user’s life. With the use of a Multi-Agent System to implement the PMA, the objectives can be achieved in a ubiquitous and highly configurable manner. It is presented here the platform concept, scheme and the agent characteristics and their contribution to each and every agent.
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Costa, Â., Novais, P., Costa, R., Corchado, J.M., Neves, J. (2010). Multi-agent Personal Memory Assistant. In: Demazeau, Y., et al. Trends in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 71. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12433-4_12
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