Hybrid Architecture for a Reasoning Planner Agent

Bajo, Javier; Tapia, Dante I.; Reboredo, Ana de Luis; Rodrı́guez, Sara; Paz, Juan F. De; Corchado, Juan M.

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-74827-4_58

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“…4 GerAgs require dynamic planning systems so that they can respond to environmental changes and provide efficient real-time plans to optimize work rosters. Our GerAg's CBP system uses multiple agents to identify daily work plans for each nurse, facilitated by our RFID-based location map of patients, nurses, and doctors.…”

Section: Planning Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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GerAmi: Improving Healthcare Delivery in Geriatric Residences

2008

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This intelligent environment's key agent, GerAg, dynamically schedules nurses' tasks, reports on their activities, and monitors patient care.M any countries face an ever-growing need to supply constant care and support for their disabled and elderly populations. Over the past 30 years, the number of Europeans over 60 years of age has risen by about 50 percent, and now represents more than 25 percent of the population. Within 20 years, experts estimate that this percentage will rise to one-third of the population, or more than 200 million people. 1 Studies in other parts of the world show similar tendencies. In the US, people over 65 years are the fastestgrowing segment of the population; by 2020, they'll represent about 1 of 6 citizens. Furthermore, many people over 85 require continuous monitoring and daily care.Finding more effective ways to provide care for elderly and disabled populations has become a major challenge for the scientific community. 1 Creating secure, unobtrusive, and adaptable environments for monitoring and optimizing healthcare will become vital in the near future. Recently, researchers have begun exploring multiagent systems and architectures to create intelligent supervision systems. These intelligent systems aim to support elderly and Alzheimer's patients in all aspects of daily life, predicting potential hazardous situations and delivering physical and cognitive support.When coupled with RFID, Wi-Fi technologies, and handheld devices, such multiagent systems offer many new possibilities and have given rise to new fields aimed at integrating distributedintelligence software applications into our daily lives. One such field is ambient intelligence, which proposes a new interaction model in which developers adapt technology to people and their context 1 and offer users simple, natural, and effortless system interactions.Ambient intelligence's goal is to develop intelligent, intuitive systems and interfaces that can ubiquitously recognize and respond to user needs. To achieve this, developers must provide ubiquitous computation and communication capabilities, focus on users' needs during development, and create technologically complex environments in medical, domestic, academic, and other contexts.Guided by these requirements, we've developed Geriatric Ambient Intelligence, an intelligent environment that integrates multiagent systems, mobile devices, RFID, and Wi-Fi technologies to facilitate management and control of geriatric residences. At GerAmi's core is the geriatric agent (GerAg), a deliberative agent that incorporates a case-based planning (CBP) mechanism to optimize work schedules and provide up-to-date patient and facility data. We've successfully implemented a system prototype at a care facility for Alzheimer patients. • • •

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Section: Planning Modelmentioning

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“…It also reduces the gap between BDI agent formalization and implementation. 4 To evaluate GerAgs' learning capacity, we measured plan quality. The number of interruptions indicates the number of replannings required to complete a plan.…”

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GerAmi: Improving Healthcare Delivery in Geriatric Residences

2008

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“…One of the alternatives is the use of hybrid systems. Multiagent hybrid systems [3] try to combine the runtime reactive agents with the rationality of the deliberative agents. These hybrid multi-agent systems are specially used when the requirements of the problem can not be satisfied by neither reactive multiagents systems nor deliberative multiagent systems independently.…”

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“…Home Care requires the improvement of the services offered to the users as well as the way they can be accessed [3]. Moreover, it is necessary to adopt the trends already tested and proven in technological environments [1].…”

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Agents in Home Care: A Case Study

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Home Care is the term used to refer to any kind of care to a person at his own home. This article presents a case study of the HoCa hybrid multiagent architecture aimed at improving of dependent people in their homes. Hoca architecture uses a set of distributed components to provide a solution to the needs of the assisted people and its main components are software agents that interact with the environment through a distributed communications system. This paper describes the hybrid multiagent system in a home care environment and presents the results obtained.

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“…Deliberative agents constantly deal with information and knowledge [9]. Because they can be executed on mobile devices, they are always available and they provide ubiquitous access for the users [3]. There are different kinds of agents in the architecture, each one with specific roles, capabilities and characteristics.…”

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Developing Home Care Intelligent Environments: From Theory to Practice

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Advances in Soft Computing

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One of the main aims of the pervasive systems is to be able to adapt themselves in execution time to the changes in the number of resources available, the mobility of the users, variability in the needs of the users and failures of the system. This work presents HoCa, a multi-agent based architecture designed to facilitate the development of pervasive systems. HoCa presents a new model where multi-agent systems and service oriented architectures are integrated to facilitate compatible services. HoCa has been applied to case study in a real scenario, aimed to provide automatic assistance to dependent people at their home, and the results obtained are presented in this paper.

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Hybrid Architecture for a Reasoning Planner Agent

Cited by 9 publications

References 13 publications

GerAmi: Improving Healthcare Delivery in Geriatric Residences

GerAmi: Improving Healthcare Delivery in Geriatric Residences

Agents in Home Care: A Case Study

Developing Home Care Intelligent Environments: From Theory to Practice

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