An Open Agent Architecture for Assisting Elder Independence
Karen Zita Haigh, John Phelps, Christopher W. Geib
Honeywell Technology Center,
3660 Technology Drive,
Minneapolis, MN 55418
In the 2002 International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS)
We are building an agent-oriented system to aid elderly people to live longer
in their homes, increasing the duration of their independence from
round-the-clock care while maintaining important social connectedness and
reducing caregiver burden. The Independent LifeStyle Assistant (TM)
(I.L.S.A.) is a
multiagent system that incorporates a unified sensing model, probabilistically
derived situation awareness, hierarchical task network response planning,
real-time action selection control, complex coordination, and machine learning.
This paper describes the problem, our reasoning for selecting an agent-based
approach, and the architecture of the system.
@inproceedings{haigh-aamas,
author="Karen Zita Haigh and John Phelps and Christopher W. Geib",
title="An Open Agent Architecture for Assisting Elder Independence",
booktitle="The First International Joint Conference on Autonomous
Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS)",
pages="578-586",
year=2002}