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

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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.

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This work has been supported by the Research Projects CARONTE (TSI-020302-2010-129) and DIA++ (TRA2009-0141), by the Fundación Séneca within the Program “Generación del Conocimiento Científico de Excelencia” (04552/GERM/06), Murcia, Spain, and by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación under the FPU grant AP2006-4154.

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  1. Dpto. de Ingeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones, University of Murcia, C.P. 30100, Murcia, Spain

    Andrés Muñoz & Juan Antonio Botía

  2. School of Computing and Mathematics, Computer Science Research Institute, University of Ulster, Newtownabbey, BT37 0QB, UK

    Juan Carlos Augusto

  3. Ambiental Intelligence & Interaction, SLL (Ami2), Ed. CEEIM Modulo 11, Campus Espinardo, C.P. 30100, Murcia, Spain

    Ana Villa

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Muñoz, A., Augusto, J.C., Villa, A. et al. Design and evaluation of an ambient assisted living system based on an argumentative multi-agent system. Pers Ubiquit Comput 15, 377–387 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-010-0361-1

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