The missing ones: Key ingredients towards effective ambient assisted living systems

Abstract

The population of elderly people keeps increasing rapidly, which becomes a predominant aspect of our societies. As such, solutions both efficacious and cost-effective need to be sought. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is a new approach which promises to address the needs from elderly people. In this paper, we claim that human participation is a key ingredient towards effective AAL systems, which not only saves social resources, but also has positive relapses on the psychological health of the elderly people. Challenges in increasing the human participation in ambient assisted living are discussed in this paper and solutions to meet those challenges are also proposed. We use our proposed mutual assistance community, which is built with service oriented approach, as an example to demonstrate how to integrate human tasks in AAL systems. Our preliminary simulation results are presented, which support the effectiveness of human participation.

Antifragility = Elasticity + Resilience + Machine Learning Models and Algorithms for Open System Fidelity

“…These are social behaviours of systems able to establish mutualistic relationships (mutually satisfactory behaviours) and to consider proactively the future returns deriving from a loss in the present. Examples of behaviours in this class are, e.g., the symbiotic relationships described in [6], [28].…”

“…Modern electronic devices [2] and cyberphysical systems [3] are typical examples of open systems that more and more are being deployed in different shapes and "things" around us. Advanced communication capabilities pave the way towards collective organisation of open systems able to enact complex collective strategies [4] and self-organise into societies [5], communities [6], [7], networks [8], and organisations [9].…”

Mutualistic relationships in service-oriented communities and fractal social organizations

“…In the reasoning-and-coordination center, requests are served by associating service protocols; identifying required roles; and appointing roles to members while optimizing individual and social concerns. The SoC semantic reasoning allows mutualistic relationships between requests and roles to be identified, which allows, e.g., two requests for service to fulfill each other [4]. Complex reasoning can be carried out by semantic reasoning engines, such as EYE [12].…”

Service-Oriented Communities: Visions and Contributions towards Social Organizations

“…We like to acknowledge how several of the key ideas discussed in here are the result of many discussions with M. Tiziana Bianco. Also our gratitude goes to Hong Sun and Ning Gui, with whom we carried out several of the research activities discussed in this paper [7,9,12,13,17,30], as well as to our reviewers for their useful suggestions.…”

“…In this paper we elaborate on this and show how such gestalts can pave the way towards novel reformulations of traditional services able to reach a better and more sensible management of the available resources and cope with their scarcity. A way to achieve this is also briefly sketched as a generalization of our concept of a "mutual assistance community" [7], which we called Service-oriented Community.…”