TY  - CHAP
T1  - An Agent Based Pervasive Healthcare System: a First Scalability Study
A1  - Krampf, Johannes
A1  - Bromuri, Stefano
A1  - Schumacher, Michael
A1  - Ruiz, Juan
TI  - Electronic Healthcare. 4th International Conference, eHealth 2011, Málaga, Spain, November 21-23, 2011
T3  - Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Y1  - 2012
VL  - 91
PB  - Springer Verlag
CY  - Heidelberg
UR  - http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-29262-0_19
KW  - artificial intelligence
KW  - Intelligent Agents
KW  - Personal Health Systems
KW  - pervasive computing
KW  - Pervasive Healthcare
N2  - Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) occurs during pregnancy due to an increased resistance to insulin caused by the growth of the baby. It appears after the 24th week of pregnancy and it is treated
with diet counselling and insulin treatment. In this paper we present the complete implementation of a Pervasive Healthcare System (PHS) based on intelligent agents to support continuous monitoring of pregnant women aected by GDM. Our infrastructure is composed of a mobile interface connecting to a distributed multi-agent system which in turns is connected to a patient management system. This stores the data produced during the monitoring phase and present them to the doctors in
charge of the patient. Our system's scalability is then evaluated to show the strong and weak points of our approach.
ER  -