Title :
Monitoring Gestational Diabetes Mellitus with Cognitive Agents and Agent Environments
Author :
Bromuri, Stefano ; Schumacher, M.I. ; Stathis, Kostas ; Ruiz, Juan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Bus. Inf. Syst., Univ. of Appl. Sci. Western Switerland Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland
Abstract :
This paper presents an agent-based pervasive healthcare system (PHS) to support pregnant women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM). Such an infrastructure uses a mobile application to monitor patients affected by GDM, whose parameters are then sent to and analysed by cognitive agents. We utilise a symbolic reasoning approach to formalise the events happening in the system, the entities participating in the interaction and the agent cognitive model for continuous monitoring of GDM. Such a cognitive model is based on deductive treatment adjustment rules to provide doctors with indications about the patient´s treatment and on abductive rules to provide a diagnosis of the illness´ current state. We evaluate our system by means of medical data to assess the precision of our infrastructure.
Keywords :
cognition; diseases; gynaecology; health care; inference mechanisms; obstetrics; patient care; patient diagnosis; patient monitoring; patient treatment; ubiquitous computing; GDM; abductive rules; cognitive agents; gestational diabetes mellitus; medical data processing; patient monitoring; patient treatment; pervasive healthcare system; symbolic reasoning approach; Avatars; Blood; Containers; Insulin; Physiology; Sugar; Abduction Logic; Agent Environments; Multi-agent Systems; Pervasive Health;
Conference_Titel :
Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT), 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lyon
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1373-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4513-4
DOI :
10.1109/WI-IAT.2011.37
