Title :
A Support System for Home Care Service Based on Multi-agent System
Author :
Itabashi, Goichi ; Chiba, Mikiko ; Takahashi, Kaoru ; Kato, Yasushi
Author_Institution :
SCIENTIA Corp., Sendai
Abstract :
According to the increase of high quality welfare services in Japan, welfare services need engineering supports. In this paper, we develop a support system for a home care service, using a multi-agent system. The decision of a care schedule is performed autonomously by the negotiations among agents so that it is sufficient for clients and helpers to confirm schedules settled by the agents. They can confirm the schedules using PDAs, which can be easily handled even by elders. Consequently, it is expected that our support system reduces the total cost of a home care service
Keywords :
multi-agent systems; negotiation support systems; notebook computers; scheduling; PDA; care schedule; home care service; multiagent system; personal digital assistant; support system; Costs; Educational institutions; Insurance; Medical services; Multiagent systems; Ontologies; Personal digital assistants; Programmable logic arrays; Qualifications; Scheduling; PDA; home health care; multi-agent system; scheduling;
Conference_Titel :
Information, Communications and Signal Processing, 2005 Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangkok
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9283-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICICS.2005.1689213
