TY  - CHAP
T1  - Pervasive Healthcare using Self-Healing Agent Environments
A1  - Bromuri, Stefano
A1  - Schumacher, Michael
A1  - Stathis, Kostas
TI  - Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems  9th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems
T3  - Advances in Intelligent and Soft-Computing
Y1  - 2011
PB  - Springer Verlag
UR  - http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-19917-2_20
KW  - Intelligent Agents
KW  - Multi-Agent Systems
KW  - Pervasive Healthcare
KW  - Planning
KW  - Self-Healing
N2  - Pervasive healthcare systems (PHSs) are required to be constantly available to the patients accessing them. To address this issue, in this paper we present an agent-based PHS that self-heals one or more of its parts when a service disruption happens. We propose a multi-agent system (MAS) approach that utilises coordination, planning and the notion of agent environment to create a distributed system capable to heal itself even if 50% of the system is not functioning due to external causes.
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