Title :
A versatile context-aware pervasive monitoring system: Validation and characterization in the health-care domain
Author :
Esposito, Alessandra ; Tarricone, Luciano ; Zappatore, Marco
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Innovation Eng., Univ. of Salento, Lecce, Italy
Abstract :
This paper presents a proposal for a context-aware framework for alert generation. The framework is organized according to a general purpose agent-based architecture, centered around an ontological context representation. The ontology provides the vocabulary upon which software agents interoperate and perform rule-based reasoning. The system components and their coordinated operations are described and a challenging application in the home-care scenario is presented. Customization efforts and validation numerical results are provided in such real-life scenario, thus demonstrating the effectiveness of the implemented framework.
Keywords :
health care; inference mechanisms; medical computing; medical information systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); software agents; ubiquitous computing; alert generation; customization efforts; general purpose agent-based architecture; health care; ontological context representation; ontology; rule-based reasoning; software agents; versatile context-aware pervasive monitoring system; vocabulary; Biomedical monitoring; Cognition; Context; Monitoring; Ontologies; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; agent; context-aware; ontology; pervasive; rule logic; ubiquitous;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics (ISIE), 2010 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Bari
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6390-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISIE.2010.5636862
