Ontological Representation and an Architecture for Homecare Pervasive Systems
Leandro O. Freitas, Rafael Teodósio Pereira, Henrique G. G. Pereira, Ricardo G. Martini, Bruno A. Mozzaquatro, Jeferson Kasper, Giovani Rubert Librelotto · IGI Global eBooks · 2013
Queues in hospitals grow due to, among others, the increasing world population and delay in patient attendance. One way of solving this problem is developing systems to provide treatment directly in the homes of patients. These systems help to decrease queues, improving the attendance to those looking for assistance. In this chapter, the authors present an ontological representation of knowledge of homecare environments and the modeling of an architecture for pervasive systems to this kind of domain. Systems with this modeling aim to improve services provided by professionals during treatment of patients located in their houses. The authors used concepts of pervasive computing to provide access to information anytime and wherever the user is, once a homecare environment has a high level of dynamicity. The knowledge representation is done through ontologies due to the possibility of reuse of information stored, as well as the interoperability of information among different computational devices.