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Pervasive Healthcare Using Self-Healing Agent Environments

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Pervasive healthcare systems (PHSs) are required to be constantly available to the patients accessing them. To address this issue, in this paper we present an agent-based PHS that self-heals one or more of its parts when a service disruption happens. We propose a multi-agent system (MAS) approach that utilises coordination, planning and the notion of agent environment to create a distributed system capable to heal itself even if 50% of the system is not functioning due to external causes.

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  1. Business Information Systems, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, TechnoArk 3, CH-3950, Sierre, Switzerland

    Stefano Bromuri & Michael Ignaz Schumacher

  2. Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham Hill, EGHAM, TW20 0EX

    Kostas Stathis

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  1. Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca Escuela Universitaria de Informática, Compañía 5, 37002, Salamanca, Spain

    Javier Bajo Pérez

  2. Departamento de Informática y Automática Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado  & María N. Moreno  & 

  3. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia , Camino de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain

    Vicente Julián

  4. Fondamentale de Lille) UMR CNRS 8022, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, LIFL (Laboratoire d’Informatique, Bâtiment M3 (extension), 59655, Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France

    Philippe Mathieu

  5. Departamento de Ingeniería de Telecomunicación E.P.S. de Linares, Universidad de Jaén, Área de Ingeniería Telemática, C/ Alfonso X el Sabio, 28, 23700, Linares (Jaén), Spain

    Joaquin Canada-Bago

  6. Departamento de Ingeniería Informática, Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco, Calle Francisco Tomás y Valiente, 11, 28049, Madrid, Spain

    Alfonso Ortega

  7. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Escuela de Ingenieros Industriales de Albacete, Campus Universitario s/n, 02071, Spain

    Antonio Fernández Caballero

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Bromuri, S., Schumacher, M.I., Stathis, K. (2011). Pervasive Healthcare Using Self-Healing Agent Environments. In: Pérez, J.B., et al. Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 89. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19917-2_20

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