Title :
Building a Context-Aware Ambient Assisted Living Application Using a Self-Adaptive Distributed Model
Author :
Segarra, Maria Teresa ; Andre, Frederic
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., IT/TELECOM-Bretagne, Brest
Abstract :
Ambient assisted living (AAL) applications are intended to allow elderly people to stay at home while connected to their family and medical staff. These applications involve several services as health-care services or infotainment, which are executed on different environments such as hospital, proximity doctor, family homes. These environments constitute a distributed, heterogeneous, highly dynamic infrastructure that makes it necessary to build AAL applications as adaptive software including the necessary mechanisms to dynamically modify their behavior. In this paper we propose a multi-level model to build context-aware self-adaptive entities: the basic level defines the mandatory functionalities for adaptive entities, while upper-levels define how to coordinate adaptation of primitive or composite entities. The generic nature of the model is illustrated by its use when building a self-adaptive distributed data management service for an AAL application.
Keywords :
distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; geriatrics; handicapped aids; health care; home computing; medical computing; ubiquitous computing; AAL application; adaptive software; context-aware ambient assisted living application; elderly people; health-care service; infotainment service; medical staff; self-adaptive distributed data management service; self-adaptive heterogeneous distributed model; Adaptation model; Aging; Application software; Computer science; Context modeling; Europe; Hospitals; Senior citizens; Telecommunications; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, 2009. ICAS '09. Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Valencia
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3684-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3584-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICAS.2009.13