Preventing Elderly from Falls: The Agent Perspective in EPRs

Abstract

This work presents an approach combining multiple electronic patient records (EPR) to a self-learning fall risk assessment tool. We utilised the agentperspective to model the system, to address privacy issues and to evaluate different distributed information fusion and opinion aggregation techniques towards there applicability to the addressed domain. Each agent represents a single patient negotiating about unknown fall risk influences in order to adapt the fall-risk assessment tool to the population under care. In addition, we will outline the planned real-world case study.

@INCOLLECTION{Ahrndt2013a,
  author = {Ahrndt, Sebastian and F"ahndrich, Johannes and Albayrak, Sahin},
  title = {Preventing Elderly from Falls: The Agent Perspective in EPRs},
  booktitle = {Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems},
  publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
  year = {2013},
  editor = {Demazeau, Yves and Ishida, Toru and Corchado, JuanM. and Bajo, Javier},
  volume = {7879},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  pages = {1-12},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-38073-0_1},
  isbn = {978-3-642-38072-3},
  owner = {ahrndt},
  timestamp = {2013.05.10},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38073-0_1}
}

Authors:

Sebastian Ahrndt, Johannes Fähndrich, Sahin Albayrak

Category:

Conference Paper

Year:

2013

Location:

11th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems