A Multi-Agent Pervasive Computing Architecture For Geographically Dispersed Care Environments

In this paper we describe a novel multi-agent architecture consisting of two remotely (geographically dispersed) associated intelligent environments aimed at establishing an agentbased care system. We will introduce the careAgents joint project, in which a collection of heterogeneous building and robotic embedded agents intelligently learns and cooperates to care for human occupants. We will show how our agent architecture facilitates inter-agent communication and how this system can be used to detect abnormalities from normal..

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