Design and evaluation of an ambient assisted living system based on an argumentative multi-agent system

Muñoz, Andrés, Augusto, Juan Carlos ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0321-9150, Villa, Ana and Botía, Juan Antonio (2011) Design and evaluation of an ambient assisted living system based on an argumentative multi-agent system. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 15 (4) . pp. 377-387. ISSN 1617-4909 [Article] (doi:10.1007/s00779-010-0361-1)

Abstract

This paper focuses on ambient assisted living systems employed to monitor the ongoing situations of elderly people living independently. Such situations are represented here as contexts inferred by multiple software agents out of the data gathered from sensors within a home. Sensors can give an incomplete, sometimes ambiguous, picture of the world; hence, they often lead to inconsistent contexts and unreliability on the system as a whole. We report on a solution to this problem based on a multi-agent system where each agent is able to support its understanding of the context through arguments. These arguments can then be compared against each other to determine which agent provides the most reliable interpretation of the reality under observation.

Item Type: Article
Research Areas: A. > School of Science and Technology > Computer Science
A. > School of Science and Technology > Computer Science > Intelligent Environments group
Item ID: 11196
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Date Deposited: 05 Jul 2013 12:42
Last Modified: 13 Oct 2016 14:27
URI: https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/11196

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