TY  - CHAP
T1  - Towards Distributed Agent Environments for Pervasive Healthcare
A1  - Bromuri, Stefano
A1  - Schumacher, Michael
A1  - Stathis, Kostas
TI  - Multiagent System Technologies 8th German Conference, MATES 2010, Leipzig, Germany, September 27-29, 2010. Proceedings
Y1  - 2010
CY  - Leipzig, Germany
UR  - http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-16178-0_13
KW  - Agent Environment
KW  - artificial intelligence
KW  - Diabetes Monitoring
KW  - Intelligent Agents
KW  - Multi-Agent Systems
KW  - Pervasive Healthcare
N2  - In this paper we present a prototypical pervasive health care infrastructure, whose purpose is the continuous monitoring of pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus. In this infrastructure, patients are equipped with a body-area network made of sensors to control blood pressure and glucose levels, where the sensors are connected to a smart phone working as a hub to collect the data. These data is then fed to a pervasive GRID where abductive agents provide a diagnosis for the actual reading of the sensors and contacting health care professionals if necessary. We also show how, by applying the concept of agent environment, we are facilitated in e_ning a pervasive GRID for roaming agents that monitor continuously the health status of the patients.
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