Title : 
Fusion and policy relaxation in patient healthcare
         
        
            Author : 
Lewis, L. ; Parameswaran, N. ; Ray, P.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Eng. Dept., Altusys Corp., Manchester, NH, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We consider a community of agents in the domain of patient healthcare where the community is populated by personal assistant agents residing on mobile phones assisting the human patients and sever agents managing the services offered to the patients. In this scenario, we look at patient care polices, and interpret them in the context of crisis situations. Existing models dealing with behaviours of such systems use policies to determine actions in predefined and static situations but do not address the problems that arise when policies have to be interpreted in changed situations. We investigate techniques for policy compliant actions in dynamic situations particularly when multiple actors are involved in a problem solving process in a crisis situation.
         
        
            Keywords : 
biomedical communication; medical computing; mobile computing; mobile radio; multi-agent systems; patient care; agent community; crisis situation; fusion; human patient; mobile phone; patient care policy; patient healthcare; personal assistant agent; policy compliant action; policy relaxation; Communities; Context; Medical services; Mobile handsets; Ontologies; Problem-solving; Semantics;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Information Fusion (FUSION), 2010 13th Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Edinburgh
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-0-9824438-1-1
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICIF.2010.5711917