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Has FQAS Something to Say on Taking Good Care of Our Elders?

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The increasing population of elders in the near future, and their expectations for a independent, safe and in-place living require new practical systems and technologies to fulfil their demands in sustainable ways. This paper presents our own reflection on the great relevance of FQAS’ main topics for recent developments on the context of Home Assistance. We show how those developments employ several techniques from the FQAS conference scope with the aim of encouraging researchers to test their systems in this field.

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  1. Department Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain

    María Ros, Miguel Molina-Solana & Miguel Delgado

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  1. Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, 6700, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Henrik Legind Larsen

  2. Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain

    Maria J. Martin-Bautista

  3. Department of Computer Science and Arificial IntelIigence, University of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain

    María Amparo Vila

  4. CBIT, Roskilde University, Universitetsvej 1, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Troels Andreasen

  5. CBIT, Roskilde University, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Henning Christiansen

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Ros, M., Molina-Solana, M., Delgado, M. (2013). Has FQAS Something to Say on Taking Good Care of Our Elders?. In: Larsen, H.L., Martin-Bautista, M.J., Vila, M.A., Andreasen, T., Christiansen, H. (eds) Flexible Query Answering Systems. FQAS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8132. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40769-7_5

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