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

fYear

2010

fDate

4-7 July 2010

Firstpage

2791

Lastpage

2796

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics (ISIE), 2010 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bari

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6390-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIE.2010.5636862

Filename

5636862