Chapter 9 A Distributed Ambient Intelligence Based Multi-Agent System for Alzheimer Health Care
Dante I. Tapia, Juan M. Corchado · 2009
This chapter presents ALZ-MAS (Alzheimer multi-agent system), 1 an ambient intelligence (AmI)-based multi-agent system aimed at enhancing the as- sistance and health care for Alzheimer patients. The system makes use of several context-aware technologies that allow it to automatically obtain information from users and the environment in an evenly distributed way, focusing on the character- istics of ubiquity, awareness, intelligence, mobility, etc., all of which are concepts defined by AmI. ALZ-MAS makes use of a services oriented multi-agent architec- ture, called flexible user and services oriented multi-agent architecture, to distribute resources and enhance its performance. It is demonstrated that a SOA approach is adequate to build distributed and highly dynamic AmI-based multi-agent systems.