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ALZ-MAS 2.0; A Distributed Approach for Alzheimer Health Care

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This paper presents ALZ-MAS 2.0; an Ambient Intelligence based multi-agent system aimed at enhancing the assistance and health care for Alzheimer patients living in geriatric residences. The system makes use of FUSION@, a multi-agent architecture which facilitates the integration of distributed services and applications to optimize the construction of Ambient Intelligence environments. The architecture optimizes the development of distributed multi-agent systems, where applications and services can communicate in a distributed way, even from mobile devices, independent of a specific programming language or operating system. The results obtained demonstrate that ALZ-MAS 2.0 is far more robust and has better performance than the previous version.

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García, Ó., Tapia, D.I., Saavedra, A., Alonso, R.S., García, I. (2009). ALZ-MAS 2.0; A Distributed Approach for Alzheimer Health Care. In: Corchado, J.M., Tapia, D.I., Bravo, J. (eds) 3rd Symposium of Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence 2008. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 51. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85867-6_9

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